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binnacle|ˈbɪnək(ə)l|
Forms: α. 7 biticle, bittake, -kle, -kell, biddikil, 7–8 bittackle, 7–9 bittacle; β. 8– binacle, binnacle.
[The current binnacle first appears after 1750, as a corruption of the earlier bittacle (still found 1839), apparently ad. Sp. bitácula, bitácora ‘a place where the compasse or light is kept in a ship’ (Minsheu), or Pg. bitácola, cogn. w. It. abitacolo, Pr. abitacle, habitacle, F. habitacle:—L. habitāculum habitation, lodge, f. habitāre to inhabit. (A direct adoption of F. habitacle, and subseq. shortening to bittacle in Eng., is phonetically less probable.) The 17th c. biddikil appears to be a transitional form.]
A box on the deck of a ship near the helm, in which the compass is placed.
1622Recov. Ship Bristol in Arb. Garner IV. 584 Watch the biticle, attend the compass. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 11 A square box nailed together with woodden pinnes, called a Bittacle,..and in it alwaies stands the Compasse. 1684I. Mather Remark. Provid. (1856) 65 The compass in the biddikil. 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 458 Companion, binnacle, in floating wreck, With compasses and glasses strew'd the deck. [1769― Dict. Marine (1789) F 2 This is called bittacle in all the old sea-books.] 1836Marryat Midsh. Easy xiii, Then they went aft to the binnacle again. 1839― Phant. Ship xli, The..shrine of the saint at the bittacle. 1870R. Ferguson Electr. 24 To place pieces of soft iron or magnets in the immediate neighbourhood of the binnacle.
b. attrib.
1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xxviii. (1857) 422 In inventing binnacle lamps. 1856Olmsted Slave States 142 The binnacle-compass was a sort of fetish to him. |