"cross-staff" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "cross-staffs",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cross-staves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A archbishop's cross."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "archbishop",
          "archbishop"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ecclesiastical, obsolete) A archbishop's cross."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ecclesiastical",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 188:",
          "text": "The cross-staff is a very simple instrument, a calibrated shaft along which a bar slides.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An early instrument, consisting of a wooden rod with a sliding crosspiece, used for measuring the altitude of a star or for surveying."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "instrument"
        ],
        [
          "altitude",
          "altitude"
        ],
        [
          "star",
          "star"
        ],
        [
          "surveying",
          "surveying"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) An early instrument, consisting of a wooden rod with a sliding crosspiece, used for measuring the altitude of a star or for surveying."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cross-staff"
}

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  "forms": [
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      "form": "cross-staffs",
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        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "cross-staves",
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        "plural"
      ]
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  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English ecclesiastical terms",
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A archbishop's cross."
      ],
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          "archbishop",
          "archbishop"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ecclesiastical, obsolete) A archbishop's cross."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ecclesiastical",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
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      ],
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        "An early instrument, consisting of a wooden rod with a sliding crosspiece, used for measuring the altitude of a star or for surveying."
      ],
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        ],
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          "surveying"
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        "(historical) An early instrument, consisting of a wooden rod with a sliding crosspiece, used for measuring the altitude of a star or for surveying."
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