Crossword-Solution: ASTROLABE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Astrolabe | n. | An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused. |
| Astrolabe | n. | A stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “ASTROLABE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ALTITUDE measure device, old | 1 answer |
| Celestial instrument used by Ptolemy and Copernicus | 1 answer |
| Forerunner of the sextant. | 1 answer |
| MALAITA island cape | 1 answer |
| Old navigation instrument | 1 answer |
| Old navigational instrument | 1 answer |
| Predecessor of the sextant. | 1 answer |
| Sextant forerunner | 1 answer |
| Sextant predecessor | 1 answer |
| Sextant's forerunner | 1 answer |
| Sextant's predecessor | 1 answer |
| instrument formerly used to measure the altitude of stars and planets | 1 answer |
| Navigation tool | 4 answers |
| AN EARLY FORM OF SEXTANT | 11 answers |
| INSTRUMENT for measuring | 38 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with ASTROLABE (5)
The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker in his time; he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, the most advanced computing device of the day.
Dumont d’Urville, commander of the Astrolabe, had then sailed, and two months after Dillon had left Vanikoro he put into Hobart Town.
The large boat and the whaler belonging to the Astrolabe were sent to this place, and, not without some difficulty, their crews hauled up an anchor weighing 1,800 lbs., a brass gun, some pigs of iron, and two copper swivel-guns.
The Bayonnaise cast her anchor before Vanikoro some months after the departure of the Astrolabe, but found no new document; but stated that the savages had respected the monument to La Perouse.
While I was looking on this desolate scene, Captain Nemo said, in a sad voice: “Commander La Perouse set out 7th December, 1785, with his vessels La Boussole and the Astrolabe.
Quotes with ASTROLABE (1)
The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1945–2010).