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plane table

–noun Surveying.
a drawing board mounted on a tripod, used in the field, with an alidade, for surveying tracts of land.


Origin:
1600–10

plane-ta⋅ble

[pleyn-tey-buhl]
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -bled, -bling.
to survey with a plane table.

Origin:
1870–75
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