field glasses

See also: fieldglasses

English

Noun

field glasses pl (plural only)

  1. binoculars.
    • 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎:
      I pursued her with some thoughts of an explanation, but she flew down the drive, and some minutes afterwards I was able to pick her out with my field-glasses travelling very rapidly in a south-westerly direction.
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