parallel ruler
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The exercises were growing more complex and difficult: navigation by leg dividers and a parallel ruler; docking in 30 mph wind; sailing around an entire island; trying to rescue Mick’s hat, which blew overboard.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2017
I measured off a distance of four miles with the dividers, and marked it off above the mouth of the creek; then applied the parallel ruler and found the course.
From The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron by J. Schonberg
By this process the parallel ruler could be moved all over the chart without losing the course from one point to the other.
From Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat by Oliver Optic
Mr. Spokesly laid the parallel ruler against the line and produced it clear across the chart.
From Command by William McFee
But reach down your chart, and produce your parallel ruler and dividers, my hearty; I want to get some sort of notion of what is ahead of us.”
From A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy by Edward S. Hodgson
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