surveyor's compass
Americannoun
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A surveyor's compass and staff, a spinning wheel; old blue dishes covered with hair-like lines.
From Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life by Jones, Adele W.
An instrument of considerable significance is another wooden surveyor's compass, in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery.
From Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Bedini, Silvio A.
While incapacitated from mental or physical labor he obtained a surveyor's compass, and more for pastime than any thought of becoming a surveyor, he studied the elements of surveying.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 by Various
Then Ethan Allen broke the surveyor’s compass with his own hands and tossed the fragments away.
From A Hero of Ticonderoga by Robinson, Rowland E.
The only surveyor's compass; and the worst of it is, 't was a borrowed one.
From The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)
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