Navig.
a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents. See diag. under binnacle .
[ 1880-85; named after M. FLINDERS ]
Navig.
a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents. See diag. under binnacle .
[ 1880-85; named after M. FLINDERS ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012