shadow pin

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a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.

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Origin of shadow pin

First recorded in 1890–95

Forty-two years after its debut, The Godfather casts a long shadow over American cinema.
The Alterna-‘Godfather’: ‘A Most Violent Year’|Nick Schager|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Searchers reported seeing a large shadow on the seabed, suggesting the crashed jet has been located.
Wreckage, Bodies of AirAsia Crash Found|Lennox Samuels|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Brinsley came from behind a police cruiser parked on a busy street in the shadow of the Tompkins Public Houses.
Alleged Cop Killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley Had a Death Wish|M.L. Nestel|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If we begin to see the other as our possession and commodity, our shoe, the shadow of our shadow, is there ever a happy outcome?
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

They seem to belong to us, and then they freely go—behavior very uncharacteristic of a shadow or a shoe.
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
She looked up in his face, leaning on his arm beneath the encircling shadow of the umbrella which he had lifted.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
"We are going into the sunlight, out of the shadow;" and she glanced back at the west, which was of a slaty blackness.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
He went on, ruminating on the vain shadow, into which his over-heated ambition to act and to be distinguished, had involved him.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter