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Definition: Forestaff
Forestaff
\Fore"staff`\, n. (Naut.)
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes
of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called
also
cross-staff. --Brande & C.
[1913 Webster]