field glass

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   a small refracting telescope

   Synonymsglassspyglass

   Broaderrefracting telescope

Questions about field glass

What does field glass mean?

field glass means "a small refracting telescope".

What is another word for field glass?

Close synonyms include glass, spyglass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is field glass a common word?

field glass 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.