surveyor's compass
Americannoun
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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)
What wonderful discoveries have been, and may still be, made, with a plumb-line, a level, a surveyor's compass, a thermometer, or a barometer!
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David
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.
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.
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