Crossword-Solution: SEXTANTS
We have 13 clues for the answer “SEXTANTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Aids in navigation | 1 answer |
| Astronomers' instruments | 1 answer |
| Astronomical instruments | 1 answer |
| Mariner's devices | 1 answer |
| Mariners' aids | 1 answer |
| Navigating tools | 1 answer |
| Navigation tools | 1 answer |
| Navigational tools that measure the positions of celestial bodies | 1 answer |
| Quadrant's relatives | 1 answer |
| Ships' instruments | 1 answer |
| They rendered astrolabes obsolete | 1 answer |
| Navigators' instruments | 2 answers |
| Navigation aids | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with SEXTANTS (5)
The stock-in-trade of this old gentleman comprised chronometers, barometers, telescopes, compasses, charts, maps, sextants, quadrants, and specimens of every kind of instrument used in the working of a ship’s course, or the keeping of a ship’s reckoning, or the prosecuting of a ship’s discoveries.
The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments.
They brought up his quadrants, sextants, however; likewise his stock of tallow candles: they shook and rummaged him, and all things, for pieces-of-eight; furiously advised him, cutlass in hand, to confess guilt.
During the previous winter the church officers had procured for their use from England two sextants and other instruments needed for taking solar observations, two barometers, thermometers, etc., and these were used by Orson Pratt daily to note their progress.* Two of the party also constructed a sort of pedometer, and, after leaving Fort Laramie, a mile-post was set up every ten miles, for the guidance of those who were to follow.
The instruments we carried were two sextants and three artificial horizons -- two glass and one mercury -- a hypsometer for measuring heights, and one aneroid.
Quotes with SEXTANTS (2)
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
Sketches of mad skies spilling stars caught in spiraling gyres, diagrams for constructing sextants tall as a man and armillary spheres to mimic the motion of the cosmos. He decides that he must have all of it, that he will cram the little observatory with maps and charts, clocks and compasses, and instruments for bringing the sky nearer.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1971–2021).