pelorus
See also: Pelorus
English
editEtymology
editReportedly the name of Hannibal's pilot.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpelorus (plural peloruses)
- A device used to take a bearing on a distant object.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- Light clusters, clear, deep, on the face of the radio gear…fans up softly off the dial of the pelorus…spills out portholes onto the white river.
Translations
editdevice to take bearing
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