Spanker: alternatives and connections

The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off o…

(of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments

Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foresh…

Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now gi…

A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrum…

The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper…

An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.

An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for compari…

The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is…

An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to…

An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the…

An instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity; also, sometimes, and less properly, applied to an instrument whi…

Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.

The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in pl…

The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the o…

Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usua…

Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water…