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Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.

Transom :: Transom (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.

Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..

Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.

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