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field glass

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field glass
n.
A portable binocular telescope without prisms used especially outdoors for viewing distant objects. Often used in the plural: used a pair of field glasses to watch the marsh birds.
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Noun1.field glassfield glass - a small refracting telescope
spyglass, glass
refracting telescope - optical telescope that has a large convex lens that produces an image that is viewed through the eyepiece
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"Yes, so it is, so it is," said the general angrily, lowering the field glass and shrugging his shoulders, "so it is
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
When we approached these points a warrior would be sent far ahead with a powerful field glass, and if no great body of red Martian troops was in sight we would advance as close as possible without chance of being seen and then camp until dark, when we would slowly approach the cultivated tract, and, locating one of the numerous, broad highways which cross these areas at regular intervals, creep silently and stealthily across to the arid lands upon the other side.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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