forestaff

noun

Etymology

From fore- + staff.

  1. inherited from *stabaz
  2. inherited from *stab
  3. inherited from stæf — “letter of the alphabet
  4. inherited from staf
  5. prefixed as forestaff — “fore + staff

Definitions

  1. An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, later…

    An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, later replaced by the sextant.

    • with a Forestaff, take the Altitude of the North Star

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for forestaff. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA