A tool employing a chamber with a colored liquid (usually alcohol, hence spirit) and an air bubble, used to determine a horizontal or vertical reference line.
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Spirit-level Sentence Examples
These are the basin of mercury and the spirit-level.
On the better farms this is done with a spirit-level or compass from time to time and hillside ditches put in at the proper places.
Its deviation from the vertical line is determined by the motion of the bubble of a spirit-level rigidly attached either to the axis, or to the telescope.