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Field glasses   /fild glˈæsəz/   Listen
Field glasses

noun
1.
An optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes.  Synonyms: binoculars, opera glasses.






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"Field glasses" Quotes from Famous Books



... leaning against the railing of the bridge, Joel suddenly caught West's arm and drew his attention to a boy some distance away who was looking toward the starting point through a pair of field glasses. West indulged in a long whistle, plainly ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour

... slipped it into his pocket, as though, having taken the trouble to pick it up, this was the very least he could do with it. Heaven alone knows why, but he then took it upstairs with him, setting it on the marble mantelpiece among his field glasses, tobacco tins, ink-bottles, pipes and candlestick. At any rate, he kept it—the moist, shiny, lob-sided, juicy little oblong olive. The hotel lounge wearied him; he came to his room after dinner to smoke at his ease, his coat ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors



Words linked to "Field glasses" :   optical instrument, plural form, plural, ocular, eyepiece



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