bittacle
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bittacle (plural bittacles)
- (obsolete) A binnacle.
- 1839, Frederick Marryat, The Phantom Ship, Chapter XLI:
- the captain, looking at the small shrine of the saint at the bittacle, and snapping his fingers at the image
References
[edit]- “bittacle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.