spyglass
IPA: spˈaɪgɫæs
noun
- A small portable telescope.
- (uncommon, regional) A pair of binoculars.
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Examples of "spyglass" in Sentences
- He's got the very same kind of spyglass as mine. "
- He packed the "spyglass" lovingly in his suitcase, anxious about revealing his discovery.
- This particular year was chosen because 400 years ago Galileo turned a spyglass to the sky.
- He carried his "spyglass" around with him for days, anxious to show his friends, my friends, passing strangers, and especially his father.
- Shifting position on the roof of the old Greymont Hotel, I held a brass spyglass up to my eye so I could watch the expression on his face.
- Two cushioned chairs sat at the table and a small end table leaned up against the couch, on top of which there was a medium sized spyglass, that is, a telescope.
- He had learned of the existence of the spyglass in the spring of 1609, but paid no attention to it; however, during the first week of July he had the new idea that the spyglass could be a valuable instrument (C.
- Thus Gillray successively depicts him as a Lilliputian figure peered at through a spyglass by King George III and as a voracious, wild-eyed dandy vying with Prime Minister William Pitt for the biggest piece of the European plum pudding.
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