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Significados de fore-staff em inglês

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Calibrated wooden rod with sliding crosspiece used for measuring the altitude of celestial bodies or the height of distant objects.

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Uso de fore-staff em inglês
1
The jibs, the brigantine, the fore-staff, and the stay-sails are easily managed.
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
2
Behind, the perimeter of the horizon was broken to their eyes, only by the mainmast, carrying brigantine and fore-staff.
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
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.
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen