dumpy level

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   a surveyor's level having a short telescope fixed to a horizontally rotating table and a spirit level

   Broadersurveyor's level

Questions about dumpy level

What does dumpy level mean?

dumpy level means "a surveyor's level having a short telescope fixed to a horizontally rotating table and a spirit level".

Is dumpy level a common word?

dumpy level 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.