Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An instrument used by stone-cutters and carpenters for tracing and forming angles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles.

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • Phobique sociale en voie de guerison je souffre aussi d'une peur incontrolable des orthopteres (criquet, sauterelle, grillon, etc ...) et de tout ce qui se rapporte a la piscine (de l'eau a l'odeur du chlore)

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • * References: le Var = a département of SE France; sèchent (sécher) = to dry; bleu-gris = blue-gray; la sauterelle (f) = grasshopper; la pince à linge (f) = clothespin; la cabane (f) = fort; éloignez-vous!

    cabane - French Word-A-Day 2005

  • I shoo the sauterelle, * catapult the caterpillar and backhand the beetle.

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • * References: le Var = a département of SE France; sèchent (sécher) = to dry; bleu-gris = blue-gray; la sauterelle (f) = grasshopper; la pince à linge (f) = clothespin; la cabane (f) = fort; éloignez-vous!

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • * References: le Var = a département of SE France; sèchent (sécher) = to dry; bleu-gris = blue-gray; la sauterelle (f) = grasshopper; la pince à linge (f) = clothespin; la cabane (f) = fort; éloignez-vous!

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • I shoo the sauterelle, * catapult the caterpillar and backhand the beetle.

    cabane - French Word-A-Day 2005

  • I shoo the sauterelle, * catapult the caterpillar and backhand the beetle.

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • *References: le Var = a département of SE France; sèchent (sécher) = to dry; bleu-gris = blue-gray; la sauterelle (f) = grasshopper; la pince à linge (f) = clothespin; la cabane (f) = fort; éloignez-vous!

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • *References: le Var = a département of SE France; sèchent (sécher) = to dry; bleu-gris = blue-gray; la sauterelle (f) = grasshopper; la pince à linge (f) = clothespin; la cabane (f) = fort; éloignez-vous!

    cabane - French Word-A-Day 2005

  • I shoo the sauterelle,* catapult the caterpillar and backhand the beetle.

    cabane - French Word-A-Day 2005

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  • n. F. An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles. (Webster's)

    March 3, 2008