Definition for AL'MU-CAN-TAR'S-STAFF

AL'MU-CAN-TAR'S-STAFF, n. [AL'MU-CAN-TAR'S STAFF.]

An instrument of box or pear-tree, having an arch of fifteen degrees, used to take observations of the sun, about the time of its rising or setting, to find the amplitude and the variations of the compass. – Encyc. Chambers.

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