Cross-staff Definition

noun

(nautical) An early navigational instrument, consisting of a wooden rod with a sliding crosspiece, used for measuring the altitude of a star; it developed into the sextant.

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A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.

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Other Word Forms of Cross-staff

Noun

Singular:
cross-staff
Plural:
cross-staffs

Cross-staff Sentence Examples

  • The Coptic patriarch uses an iron cross-staff.

  • With Gunter's name are associated several useful inventions, descriptions of which are given in his treatises on the Sector, Cross-staff, Bow, Quadrant and other Instruments.

  • The astrolabe quadrant or cross-staff enabled the mariner to determine"his latitude with a certain amount of accuracy, but for his longitude 1 See fig.

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