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Binoculars   /bənˈɑkjələrz/   Listen
Binoculars

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






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"Binoculars" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Optical instruments," Craig said. "Binoculars, microscopes—it would take us a long time to learn how to make glass as clear and flawless as those crystals. But we have no way of cutting and ...
— Space Prison • Tom Godwin

... admitted. "I have noticed, though, that the officers on the bridge keep a constant lookout ashore. See; two of them, even now, have their binoculars trained on the shore." ...
— Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz • H. Irving Hancock

... to the west with my binoculars I thought I caught the dim shape of a submerged submarine moving slowly through the black depths like a hungry shark; but it disappeared almost immediately, and I was not sure. As a matter of fact, it was a submarine, one of six ...
— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett

... boat floating out yonder, the plaything of the breeze that seems to be rising?" asked the other, still using the binoculars. ...
— The Airplane Boys among the Clouds - or, Young Aviators in a Wreck • John Luther Langworthy

... inventor was peering through the binoculars, and, as soon as he had the mysterious craft ...
— Tom Swift and his Sky Racer - or, The Quickest Flight on Record • Victor Appleton


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