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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Binnacle

The case of the mariner's compass, which used to be written bittacle, a corruption of the Portuguese bitacola, French, habitacle, properly an abode.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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