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turketus

turketus [dub.; ? cf. turkesius etc. or CL torquere], sort of astronomical instrument for measuring or calculating coordinates, ‘turquet’. ad rectificandum cursus et loca stellarum ‥ una cum ceteris que investigari poterunt per armillas, astrolabium, aut ~um Wallingf. Rect. 406; de omnibus parcium instrumenti quod ~us dicitur (Tract. Turk.) OHS LXXVIII 370.

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