What's the difference between perambulator and waywiser?
Perambulator
Definition:
(n.) One who perambulates.
(n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.
(n.) A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing.
Example Sentences:
(1) I seem to see Madonna Grimes drifting vacantly from job to job, a perambulating pain in the neck wherever she works.
(2) A brief account is given of a person, small in stature, with retarded development, who, following the breakdown of marital intimacy and the failure of his efforts to adopt a child, found sexual satisfaction by defecating in unoccupied perambulators and subsequently inflicting damage on them.
(3) The Steinway's perambulations are a symbol of that cumbrous, precious heritage of images and ideas that the refugees from Hitler carried into exile.
(4) Taking our afternoon perambulations, Sir Henry and I encountered the local naturalist John Stapleton out on the moor with his sister.
(5) Dancers will negotiate the slippery limestone rocks, disappearing into underground passageways and then popping up later in front of the perambulating audience; a choir's singing will rise as if from the centre of the earth.
(6) The abdominal symptoms develop latently and surgery prevalently ensues during the stage of intestinal wall necrosis or perambulating peritonitis.
Waywiser
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator.