| 单词 | guards of the pole |
| 释义 | > as lemmasguards of the pole ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Ursa Major > pointers pointers1567 guard1574 watcher1588 the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Ursa Minor > guardian(s) guardian1555 warden1555 guard1574 watcher1588 watch-star1588 guard-star1690 1574 W. Bourne Regim. for Sea (1577) 34 You may knowe it by..the Starres rounde about the Pole, as Charles Wayne and the Guardes. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vii. f. 304v All these instruments serue to little purpose, vnlesse you know also the North star with his guards. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vii. xxvi. f. 323v The two guardes or pointers of Charles Waine. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 15 The winde shak'd surge, with high and monstrous mayne, Seemes to cast water, on the burning Beare, And quench the guards of th'euer fired pole. 1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) 209 The two stars that are in the shoulders of the Bear, are called the Guards,..because they are diligently to be looked unto, in regard of the their singular use which they have in Navigation. 1783 R. Turner View of Heavens (1798) 56 The two foremost of the square lie almost in a right line with the Pole-star, and are called the Guards or Pointers. 1819 T. Whiting Syst. Astron. (1828) 28 Guards, a name that has been sometimes applied to the two stars nearest the North Pole. < as lemmas |
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