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  Word: Backstaff

  ID	Word	Wordtype	Definition
  11865	Backstaff	n.	An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.

  
  

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