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Binʹnacle

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The case of the mariner’s compass, which used to be written bittacle, a corruption of the Portuguese bitacola, French, habitacle, properly an abode.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bi-metallism
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Binary Theory
Bingham’s Dandies
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