Flinders-bar
noun, Navigation.
1.
a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
/ˈflɪndəz/
noun
1.
(nautical) a bar of soft iron mounted on a binnacle to compensate for local magnetism causing error to the compass
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