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spyglass
[ spahy-glas, -glahs ]
noun
- a small telescope.
spyglass
/ ˈspaɪˌɡlɑːs /
noun
- a small telescope
Example Sentences
From the heights of Monticello, Jefferson watched the British troops through his spyglass, or hand telescope.
In one memorable 1803 cartoon, for example, British king George III literally holds the French leader in his palm, looking at him through a spyglass.
"It looked like a black canvas with a chain with a spyglass hanging on the end of it," Lennon remembered during an RKO Radio interview on the last afternoon of his life.
Among the props are the amber spyglass, from which one of Pullman's novels takes its name, and visual effects which made his otherworldly creatures move and talk.
In the weeks that followed, he explained a lot of things to Elizabeth; sextants and logs, spyglasses and dividers.
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