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Pirate's viewing aid
Answer for the clue "Pirate's viewing aid ", 8 letters:
spyglass
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Word definitions for spyglass in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also spy-glass , "telescope, field-glass," 1706, from spy (v.) + glass (n.). Spying-glass is from 1680s.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A small portable telescope. 2 A pair of binoculars.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spyglass \Spy"glass`\ (-gl[.a]s`), n. A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
Usage examples of spyglass.
Peering ahead with a spyglass, Audubon saw countless dark valleys half hidden by the pines and cycads that gave the mountains their name.
He hit the switch for biosensor boost and the squid fiber in the spyglass went to work for him.
Van Hoek lay flat on the oar-deck, poked his spyglass out through an oar-lock, and gazed upon the brig with the dumbfounded intensity of a stalking cat.
One of his aides, the Cornte de Parisson of the pretender to the crown of France, a prestigious presence McClellan rather likedhanded him a spyglass.
Nyebern and Kari Dovell sat in armchairs before the big windows in the darkened living room of his house on Spyglass Hill, looking at the millions of lights that glimmered across Orange and Los Angeles counties.
Already, though, as the chaplains bore witness, voices were being raised against Skilluck and his crew, blaming them for what was not in their control: bringing the wrong sort of seeds, not insisting on being given more creshban, wasting space on spyglasses and articles of metal instead of food.
Minikin at last opened the shutters, sunlight flooded the room and the lens of the spyglass.
At intervals an enemy horseman might appear at the edge of the village to gaze through a spyglass at the Dutch positions, but no attacks followed such reconnaissances, no skirmishers wormed their way through the fields, and no cannon crashed shell or roundshot at the fragile Dutch lines.
The spyglass brought him as close as though he was within speakin' distance.
Wego, but we will promote with maximum goodwill the advantages of the agreement you suggest, provided that at the end of summer we may take home with us tokens of what benefits may accrue therefrom, such as creshban, better cleanlickers, useful food-seeds, spyglasses and so on.
With the evidence of spyglasses and metal blades to contradict it, we chose to accept this nonsense!
This served to fabricate spyglasses of outstanding quality, such as lured not only fisherfolk but even the all-powerful People of the Sea.
In The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman deftly weaves the cliffhangers and mysteries of The Golden Compass and The Subtle.
Vic unwraps his rifle from the collection of Hefty bags that he uses to protect it from the salt spray, and detaches the bulky sight so that they can use it as a spyglass.
Vic unwraps his rifle from the collection of Hefty bags that he uses to protect it from the salt spray, and detaches the bulky sight so that they can use it as a spyglass.