Any of various ornamental or practical devices, frequently of a circular or radial design, likened to… A circular pattern showing the thirty-two…

In various technical uses. Nautical. A compass card: see quot. 1610 and card, n.2 5. Hence, on a terrestrial globe: The set of rhumbs drawn from a…

A disk of stiff paper or similar material marked with the 32 principal bearings, forming the indicator in a magnetic compass; = compass-card n.

The card of the mariner's compass (see card, n.2 5).

= card, n.2 in several senses. The compass-card.