mariner's compass

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noun

a compass used for navigational purposes, consisting of a pivoted compass card in a gimbal-mounted, nonferrous metal bowl.

( initial capital letter ) Astronomy, compass ( def 8a ).

Origin:
1620–30

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mariner's compass
noun
compass in the form of a card that rotates so that 0 degrees or North points to magnetic north [syn: compass card]

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Mariner's compass is always a great word to know.

So is interrobang. Does it mean:

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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"Columbus has sailed westward of these isles by the mariner's compass, but neither he nor his successors have found them. We are no nearer than Plato was. The earnest seeker and hopeful discoverer of this New World always haunts the outskirts of his time, and walks through the densest crowd uninterrupted, and, as it were, in a straight line."

-Henry David Thoreau

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