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单词 perspective trunk
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perspective trunk
14. More fully perspective trunk: A telescope; cf. trunk-glass n., trunk-spectacle n. at Compounds 2.
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field glass1782
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1610 C. Heydon in W. Camden Epist. (1691) 130 With one of our ordinary Trunks I have told eleven stars in the Pleiades.
1620 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 414 A long perspective-trunke with the convexe glasse fitted to the said hole [in a camera obscura], and the concave taken out at the other end.
a1637 B. Jonson Newes from New World 85 in Wks. (1640) III Fac. From the Moone!.. Pr. Oh by a Trunck! I know it, a thing no bigger than a Flute-case; A neighbour of mine, a spectacle-maker, has drawn the Moone through it at the boare of a whistle.
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