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Backstaff
Back"staff`\, n. An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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