¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spyglasses
1. spyglass [n] - See also: spyglass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spyglasses
Literary usage of Spyglasses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phonemic Awareness Through Language Play by Jill Norris (1998)
"Monday Have students make paper spyglasses using the pattern on page 89. ...
Tuesday Use the spyglasses and repeat the Monday's activity with the second ..."
2. The French Revolution: A History. In Three Volumes. by Thomas Carlyle (1837)
"A Jove's Balance, O ye Austrian spyglasses ? One saucer-scale of a Jove's Balance;
... By Heaven, answer the spyglasses, it is a Montgolfier, ..."
3. Annual Reports of the Navy Department: Report of the Secretary of the Navy by United States Navy Dept (1897)
"He reports as follows: The classes of nautical instruments issued from the
Observatory include sextants, octants, spyglasses, binocular glasses, protractors ..."
4. Reciprocity by James Laurence Laughlin, Henry Parker Willis (1903)
"... spyglasses or microscopes, or graduated scales or circles, (2) Not provided
with any optical instrument, nor with graduated spyglasses for use on land, ..."
5. Reciprocity by James Laurence Laughlin, Henry Parker Willis (1903)
"(a) Of copper, bronze, brass, or steel— (1) With spyglasses or microscopes» or
graduated scales or circles. spyglasses for use on land, monocles, binocles, ..."
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