Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book used in surveying, engineering, geology, etc., in which are set down the angles, stations, distances, observations, etc.
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Examples
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Show a form of field-book for transit notes used when "running" curves, and place thereon notes of a 5 deg. curve for 1,000, with two intermediate "set-ups."
Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various
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The guns having been freed from rust, and their foundry numbers noted, in the order of their relative positions, on the field-book, the inspecting officer will proceed to verify the instruments to be used in their measurement, if this has not been previously done in a manner entirely satisfactory to him.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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But the chief reward for denying myself a holiday were the "back-calls" in the town itself which I was able to check out of my field-book.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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History, as it has often been written, is the genealogy of princes, the field-book of conquerors; and the fortunes of our fellow-men have been treated only so far as they have been affected by the influence of the great masters and destroyers of our race.
The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906
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During the last summer he was at school, he surveyed the fields adjoining the school-house and the surrounding plantations, entering his measurements and calculations in a respectable field-book.
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To facilitate and popularize if possible this fascinating recreation of star-gazing the author has designed this field-book.
A Field Book of the Stars William Tyler Olcott 1904
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As for the skin-bound field-book, this having already been transcribed into a red morocco note-book, very likely the original did not go to Biddle at all; the orderly book, the various fragments, the
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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To facilitate the fascinating recreation of star-gazing the author has designed this field-book.
A Field Book of the Stars William Tyler Olcott 1904
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Then, she blew out the candle and drew his soiled field-book leaf from her breast.
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Eleanor slept with the leaves of the field-book under her pillow that night; but she slept the heavy dreamless sleep of baffled hope.
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