| 单词 | protracting pin | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasprotracting pin   General attributive, denoting instruments used in drawing and plotting (cf. sense  2), as  †protracting-bevel,  †protracting-needle,  †protracting pin, etc. ΚΠ 1669    S. Sturmy Mariners Mag.  iv. xi. 178  				To know the Rhomb between any two Places..by a Protracting Quadrant. 1701    T. Tuttell Descr. Math. Instruments in  J. Moxon Math. made Easie 		(ed. 3)	 16  				Protracting Pin, a taper piece of brass with a Point of Silver, to draw black Lines on Mathematical Paper, and a small Head..which holds a fine Needle to prick off any Degree and part from the Protractor. 1766    Compl. Farmer at Surveying  				Having drawn lines with the point of the compasses, or a protracting-needle, the intersections represent the angles. 1860    W. E. Newton Brit. Patent 1793 		(1861)	 1  				An improved mathematical or plotting instrument which I intend to denominate a protracting trigonometer. 1875    E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.  				Protracting-bevel, a plotting-instrument having a protracting sector and a prolongation of one radius, which forms a rule. 1877    Manufacturer & Builder Aug. 175/3  				The patent right to..protracting bevel, $100. < as lemmas  | 
	
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