1 definition found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Backstaff \Back"staff`\, n. An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed. [1913 Webster]
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