declinator

noun — 2 senses

declinator

noun

Etymology Compare French déclinateur. See decline.

1

An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.

2

Obsolete A dissenter.

  • the Votes of the Declinators could not be heard for the noise1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:

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