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sextant
Word family
sex·tant /ˈsekstənt/ noun [countableC]
Examples from the Corpus
sextant• That was one of the problems of using the piste and a sextant.• Even Powell, constantly consulting sextant and compass, felt flummoxed.• Because of the track, navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover.• Once, Billy Hawkins got up in the middle of dinner, walked to the boats, and pulled out the sextant.• So I forgot about him, at least until that evening when I gave Ellen some practice with the sextant.• You had to be able to fix your position just like a ship at sea, with sextant and star charts.
(1500-1600) Modern Latin sextans “sixth part of a circle”, from Latin sextus “sixth”
sex·tant noun
Syllable
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sextant
Sailing and boating equipment: anchor, ballast, blade...
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