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 sense of togetherness seemed as palpable as the heavy field glasses through which we watched the races.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2013

He put his field glasses to his eyes, looked, put them down, walked two or three paces south, turned, looked again, slowly walked back and forth.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara