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Definition of Binocle
1. n. A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass.
Definition of Binocle
1. Noun. A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable the viewing of an object with both eyes at once; a double-barrelled field glass or opera glass. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Binocle
1. a binocular [n -S] - See also: binocular
Medical Definition of Binocle
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Binocle
Literary usage of Binocle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bandaging by Albert Draper Whiting (1915)
"binocle, or bandage of both eyes. Complete a monocle, or bandage of the right
eye (page 66). When the final horizontal circular turn of the monocle reaches ..."
2. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"If neither wins the game that deal, they play the next deal as in ordinary
two-handed binocle. with a stock, the ultimate winner taking the stakes. ..."
3. Mechanical therapeutics: A Practical Treatise on Surgical Apparatus by Philip Skinner Wales (1867)
"A double-headed roller eight yards long by two inches wide—one of the cylinders
being somewhat larger than the other. 2d Variety of the binocle; ..."
4. Pepacton by John Burroughs (1884)
"There was a whirlpool, a rock eddy, and a binocle within a mile. I might be caught
in the binocle, or engulfed in the whirlpool, or smashed up in the eddy. ..."
5. The Writings of John Burroughs by John Burroughs (1895)
"There was a whirlpool, a rock eddy, and a binocle within a mile. I might be caught
in the binocle, or engulfed in the whirlpool, ..."
6. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams (1905)
"... the Dictionary in one hand, and binocle in the other, for the binocle is more
important than the Dictionary when it reaches the complicated border which ..."
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