| 单词 | telltale compass |
| 释义 | > as lemmastelltale compass telltale compass Nautical a compass, additional to the main steering compass, for monitoring a ship's course, often designed to be placed above a cabin and read from underneath (see also sense A. 4b). ΚΠ 1832 Hampshire Advertiser 11 Aug. 3/5 Plates, dishes, knives, forks, glasses, &c. foot mat, tell-tale compass, and handsome painted box compass for cabin. 1898 F. H. Costello Under Rattlesnake Flag xxii. 278 Overhead, affixed to a beam, was a telltale compass, and in a rack about the mainmast were three or four cutlasses. 1983 E. S. Maloney Chapman Piloting & Seamanship (ed. 56) xv. 363/1 A tell-tale compass is an ordinary magnetic compass built upside-down so that the bottom of the card can be read. < as lemmas |
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