Meanings
- pluralplural onlybinoculars.
I pursued her with some thoughts of an explanation, but she flew down the drive, and some minutes afterwards I was able to pick her out with my field-glasses travelling very rapidly in a south-westerly direction.
1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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