
1) Appliance 2) Contraption 3) Contrivance 4) Convenience 5) Gadget 6) Gismo 7) Gizmo 8) Pivoting gizmos 9) Widget
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1) Rings
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arrangement of rings allowing free motion of supported object
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• (n.) A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship`s compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the rin...
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A hinged arrangement which is designed to hold objects upright as the boat pitched and rolls.
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a device used to allow a table to remain level when a boat heels
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[
n] - an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship`s compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips
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Sometimes,a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped. Also called
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