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Meanings of jacob's staff in English
Calibrated wooden rod with sliding crosspiece used for measuring the altitude of celestial bodies or the height of distant objects.
Desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers.
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Examples for "cross-staff"
Examples for "cross-staff"
1
Boy, bring up my cross-staff, and be mindful that you do not strike it against anything as you come up.
2
A man upon the frame-work controls this wheel, guided by a sight on the frame, and a cross-staff at the end of the field.
3
No doubt the cross-staff is a very primitive contrivance, but when handled by one so skilful as Tycho it afforded results of considerable accuracy.
4
Got Gordon to make a dozen cross-staffs and started for it to take levels.
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.
Usage of jacob's staff in English
1
The bear again disappeared, taking the Jacob's staff, and appeared no more that night.
2
7 And in his hand a Jacob's staff, to stay
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