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单词 diacle
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diaclen.

Etymology: ? related to dial n.1; the -cle appears to be as in receptacle, spiracle, and other reprs. of Latin instrumental -culum, as in gubernāculum rudder.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A small portable dial or compass; a pocket-dial.
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1488 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 83 A fare diacle.
1612 Bk. Customs & Valuation in A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 297 Diacles of wode, the dozen, xijs; of bone, the dozen, xlviijs.
1794 Scot. Agric. Surv., Shetland 87 (Jam.) Every boat carries one compass at least, provincially a diacle.
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