Definitions for plane-table

plane-table plane-ta·ble

Spelling: [pleyn-tey-buh l]
IPA: /ˈpleɪnˌteɪ bəl/

Plane-Table is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 358 anagrams from letters in plane-table (-aabeellnpt).

Definitions for plane-table

noun

  1. a drawing board mounted on a tripod, used in the field, with an alidade, for surveying tracts of land.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to survey with a plane table.

Origin of plane-table

First recorded in 1870-75

Examples for plane-table

This map was a plane-table sketch, prepared by an engineer officer shortly before the action.

The delay enabled me to try my hand at repairing the plane-table.

Having set up the plane-table in position, I erected a flag-post and returned to camp to breakfast.

In the northern part of this valley I was prevented from doing any plane-table work in the afternoons of four successive days.

Gujjar Singh, with the plane-table, was detained by bad weather higher up the valley.

plane-table maps vary greatly in scale and the area they represent.

The new survey of Belgium was completed in 1872 and there have been published 527 plane-table sections or planchettes on Belgium.

Work on the wireless masts went on apace, and the geologist was abroad with his plane-table every day.

I set up the plane-table, however, in the hope that the clouds would clear later on, and then took a boiling-point observation.

Sometimes I went on with Imam Sharif, one soldier and a servant carrying the plane-table.

Word Value for plane-table
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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