station staff

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station staff (plural station staffs or station staves)

  1. An instrument for taking angles in surveying.
    • 1803, George Adams, Geometrical and Graphical Essays:
      Write down in the first column, the first limit A; in the second, the number of feet, inches, and tenths, the points of sight, indicated on the station staff at A