machinule
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “machine + -ule?”)
Noun
machinule (plural machinules)
- (obsolete) An instrument used by surveyors to find right angles.
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “machinule”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.