field glasses

British  

plural noun

1. Former name: field glasses.  another name for binoculars

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Example Sentences

“They had a rock crest hollowed out and they could climb up there with field glasses and see the whole island, where everyone was,” Chapman said.

From Washington Times

My mother vividly recalled looking through field glasses at the Soviet Red Army, which had stopped at the Vistula River, waiting for the Nazis to wipe out the leaders of a free Poland for them.

From Washington Post

The king put his field glasses to his eyes and saw what it was.

From Literature

In tests, people using Luke’s binoculars spot nearly twice as many threats as those scanning their surroundings with conventional field glasses.

From Economist

A statue of the impressively bearded Civil War general and former Secretary of War John Rawlins, field glasses in hand, surveys this narrow block-long park from its eastern end.

From Washington Post