e/Lodestar

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has glosseng: A lodestar is a relatively bright, easily found star that is used to find direction, particularly with reference to Polaris, which during the 20th and 21st centuries indicates the direction to the north within a fraction of a degree. (Due to the slow precession of the Earth's axis, this is not a permanent relationship.) The word is now considered archaic and is rarely used in its literal sense.
lexicalizationeng: Lode Star
lexicalizationeng: lodestar
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