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Meanings of fore-staff in English
Calibrated wooden rod with sliding crosspiece used for measuring the altitude of celestial bodies or the height of distant objects.
Usage of fore-staff in English
1
The jibs, the brigantine, the fore-staff, and the stay-sails are easily managed.
2
Behind, the perimeter of the horizon was broken to their eyes, only by the mainmast, carrying brigantine and fore-staff.
3
The question now was to get under full sail, and, to complete the sails, to hoist the top-sails, the royal, the fore-staff, and the stay-sails.
Translations for fore-staff
Russian
Portuguese
Spanish
Fore-staff through the time