Alidade

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

An alidade () (archaic forms include alhidade, alhidad, alidad) or a turning board is a device that allows one to sight a distant object and use the line of sight to perform a task.

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