quintant
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of quintant
1675–85; quint- (< Latin quīntus fifth ) + -ant (as in quadrant )
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An instrument used instead of a sextant, quintant, or quadrant; but the quintant embraces as much—viz.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The flat bar which carries the nonius scale and index-glass of a quadrant, octant, quintant, or sextant.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
My quintant was first wrested from my coxswain, who in a tone of grief made me known the circumstance.
From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor
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