field glasses

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A statue of the impressively bearded Civil War general and former Secretary of War John Rawlins, field glasses in hand, surveys this narrow block-long park from its eastern end.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2017

Galileo’s telescopes were refractors, as are today’s binoculars and field glasses.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

I kind of pull over there, take my field glasses and peer down into the casting yard - where they make the segments - and see if can guess what they’re doing.

From Washington Times • Nov. 23, 2015

The naturalist patiently showed me how to use my rental field glasses, moving my gaze from branch to branch until I found my visual prey.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2014

We visited an army unit at the front, and at one point I took a pair of field glasses and could actually see French troops across the border.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela