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knitandpurl (1048 words)
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"Binnacle, formerly called bittacle, a wooden case or box, which contains the compasses, log-glasses, watch-glasses, and lights to shew the compass at night."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 40
"...his ship was answering as she had always answered. But as he peered down at the compass his blood dripping over the glass turned the binnacle light red."
—Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 67