/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Goat and Compasses
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A public-house sign in the Commonwealth; a corruption of “God en-compasses [us].”
⁂ Some say it is the carpentersʹ arms—three goats and a chevron. The chevron being mistaken for a pair of compasses.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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