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▪ I. aba1|ˈæbə|
An altazimuth instrument, specially designed by M. Antoine d'Abbadie [from whom it is said to be named] for determining the latitude without the use of the artificial horizon required by the sextant on land, and also for determining small angular heights and true bearings of terrestrial objects, without the trouble occasioned by the sextant.
1876S. Kens. Loan Coll. Catal. (ed. 3) 747 A person familiar with the use of the sextant only, on observing circum⁓meridian altitudes for his first attempt with the aba, obtained his latitude to within 4{pp}. 1879Daily News 23 Aug. 4/4 The chief instrument he [an African explorer] used was the sextant, but he also used the aba.
▪ II. aba2, abba2|ˈæbə|
[Arab. ῾abā'.]
A sleeveless outer garment, resembling a sack with openings for the head and arms, worn by Arabs.
1811tr. Niebuhr's Trav. Arab. cxxii, in Pinkerton Voy. X. 156 A blind tailor at Basra, who earned his bread by making Abbas. 1833A. Crichton Hist. Arabia II. v. 193 A silk gown, over which is thrown a white abba of the finest manufacture of El Hassa. Ibid. viii. 350 The common abba is without sleeves, resembling a sack, with openings for the head and arms. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur viii. iv. 496 Galileans in his league, carrying short swords under their long abbas. 1934F. Stark Valleys Assassins ii. 74, I enveloped myself in the brown abba, tightly pinned under the chin. 1942M. Home House of Shade iii. 54 Over it was an aba, or sleeveless coat of fine linen. |