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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See compass.

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  1. n. A tool used to draw circles, usually consisting of two arms joined at one end in such a way that the arms can be opened and closed; one of the arms is pointed at its free end while the other holds a pencil, pencil lead or some other implement for making marks.

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  • “Then to Pope's Head Ally, and there bought me a pair of tweezers, cost me 14s., the first thing like a bawble I have bought a good while, but I do it with some trouble of mind, though my conscience tells me that I do it with an apprehension of service in my office to have a book to write memorandums in, and a pair of compasses in it; but I confess myself the willinger to do it because I perceive by my accounts that I shall be better by L30 than I expected to be.”

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1662

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  1. compass

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  1. calipers
  1. divider
  1. moph
  1. compass
  1. tertiate
  1. bow-compass
  1. circinate
  1. drawing-compass
  1. scribe

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