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Transit :: Transit (n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit..

Odometer :: Odometer (n.) An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed..

Arpentator :: Arpentator (n.) The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor..

Camp :: Camp (n.) The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc..

Staff :: Staff (n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike..

Blaze :: Blaze (n.) A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark..

Outkeeper :: Outkeeper (n.) An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.

Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger..

Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.

Perambulator :: Perambulator (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer..

Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc..

Mark :: Mark (n.) A fixed object serving for guidance, as of a ship, a traveler, a surveyor, etc.; as, a seamark, a landmark..

Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.

Surview :: Surveyorship (n.) The office of a surveyor.

Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.

Circumferentor :: Circumferentor (n.) A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360�, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint..

Course :: Course (n.) Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race..

Surveyorship :: Surveyor (n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port..

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