ship's+compass
101Operation Vengeance — Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II …
102gimbals — /jim beuhlz, gim /, n. (used with a sing. v.) Sometimes, gimbal. a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship s compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the… …
103Castro, João de — ▪ Portuguese naval officer born , Feb. 7, 1500, Lisbon, Port. died June 6, 1548, Goa, Portuguese India naval officer who helped preserve the Portuguese commercial settlement in India and contributed to the science of navigation with three… …
104Magnetic Island — ▪ island, Queensland, Australia island in the Cumberland Islands, off the coast of northeastern Queensland, Australia, in Halifax Bay, an inlet of the Coral Sea. It is one of the most easily accessible islands of the Great Barrier Reef,… …
105Jan Ingen-Housz — Jan Ingen Housz † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jan Ingen Housz Investigator of the physiology of plants, physicist, and physician, b. at Breda in North Brabant, 8 Dec., 1730; d. at London, 7 Sept., 1799. He attended the Latin school at… …
106binnacle — [15] Binnacle ‘ship’s compass housing’ has a curious history: etymologically it means ‘place where something lives’, and it is related to habitation and inhabit. Forms with nn do not begin to appear before the 18th century. Until then the word… …
107binnacle — case in which a ship s compass is kept Nautical Terms …
108binnacle — wooden box for a ship s compass, c.1750, corruption of bittacle (1620s), which is probably from Sp. bitacula or Port. bitacola, both from L. habitaculum little dwelling place, from habitare to inhabit (see HABIT (Cf. habit)) …
109binnacle — bin·na·cle || bɪnÉ™kl n. box which holds a ship s compass …
110binnacles — bin·na·cle || bɪnÉ™kl n. box which holds a ship s compass …
