surveyor's compass

American  

noun

1. an instrument used by surveyors for measuring azimuths.

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Example Sentences

Instead, the Scots-Irish see their identity — shaped on the scrappy, Calvinist borderlands of England and Scotland, then sharpened on the tenant farms of Ulster — as indistinguishable from the land they made their own with the help of the long rifle and the surveyor’s compass.

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The Makah Indians had seen and understood something of the mariner’s compass, but a surveyor’s compass was a riddle to them.

From Project Gutenberg

An instrument of considerable significance is another wooden surveyor's compass, in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery.

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Then Ethan Allen broke the surveyor’s compass with his own hands and tossed the fragments away.

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The only surveyor's compass; and the worst of it is, 't was a borrowed one.

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