kompas

There is a query about this entry.
English: ‘compass’.

It may be to late to determine, but was kompas in Pacific Pidgin English prior to its current main usage for surveying instruments/binoculars?

See original Mihalic entry.

Noun forms

  1. Tools, machines, instruments: a ship’s compass

  1. Tools, machines, instruments: a surveyor’s instrument
    makim long kompas to takes one’s bearings, to survey land

  1. Tools, machines, instruments: binoculars
    em i save telim ol pisin long kompas bilong em he identifies birds with binoculars

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