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ˈcross-staff
Also (in sense 1) 6 croystaff.
†1. Eccl. An archbishop's cross; also, by confusion, used for crose-staff, a bishop's crook or crosier. Obs. exc. Hist.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. (1858) 156 He [Robt Grostede] appered to the Pope, and smet him on the side with the pike of his crosse staf. 1540Inv. in Greene Hist. Worcester II. App. 5 Item, a croystaff of selver and gylt. 1541Barnes Wks. (1573) 246/1 All your holy ornamentes, as your holy myters, your holy crosse-staues, your holy pyllers. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 2 He [Becket] taketh from Alexander his Crosyer, the crosse with the Crossestaffe..and caryeth it in himselfe. 1884Tennyson Becket 188 Shall I not smite him with his own cross-staff?
†2. An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the sun or a star. Obs.
1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. ii. viii. (ed. 7) 386 The Latitude then is to be knowne by the Astrolabe, Quadrant, Crosse-staffe, and by such like Mathematicall instruments. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. ii. xiii. 80 How to use the Cross-Staff. Set the end of the Cross-Staff to the..Eye..Then move the Cross..from you or towards you..till that the upper end come upon the..Sun or Star. 1839Marryat Phant. Ship ix, The cross-staff at that time was the simple instrument used to discover the latitude.
b. A surveyor's cross, used in taking offsets.
1874in Knight Dict. Mech. |