drafting instrument

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   an instrument used by a draftsman in making drawings

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Questions about drafting instrument

What does drafting instrument mean?

drafting instrument means "an instrument used by a draftsman in making drawings".

Is drafting instrument a common word?

drafting instrument is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.