Definition of "hydroscope" []

• An optical device used for viewing objects far below the surface of water. (noun)

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• "MAHMOUD EL KHZNDAN, SHIFA HOSPITAL: So much people killed simply because you have no test tube, no hydroscope, no tube, no I.V. lines, no narcotics for no crushed injuries."
• "It might be said that he divined the course of seams in the depths of the coal mine as a hydroscope reveals springs in the bowels of the earth."
• "Astounded, I continued to adjust the hydroscope to a range incredible, turning the screw to focus at a mile and a half, at two miles, at two and a quarter, a half, three-quarters, three miles, three miles and a quarter -- click!"