Forestaff

Not Acceptable For Game Play

This word is not acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, later replaced by the sextant.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as cross-staff, 1.
    • Word Usage
    "Schouten and other heroic marine worthies of distant times had navigated the globe, discovered new worlds, penetrated into the most secret solitudes of the deep without any notion of longitude and with no better instruments to take the sun's height than the forestaff and astrolabe."
    Variant
    cross-staff   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games. The OFFICIAL SCRABBLE PLAYERS DICTIONARY, THE OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT AND CLUB WORD LIST, and associated word lists are properties owned by Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada, and are used with permission.