Cross-Staffs is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 357 anagrams from letters in cross-staffs (-acfforsssst).
1400-50, for an earlier sense; late Middle English
The cross-staff had not then come into use, and it was never of much service in low latitudes.
But some kind of a dratted cross-current ketched me and I'm sailin' out to sea, I finds, without compass or cross-staff.
A man upon the frame-work controls this wheel, guided by a sight on the frame, and a cross-staff at the end of the field.
He rubbed his eyes, looked again, adjusting his observation by a cross-staff which had been placed so as to bear upon the point.
Iacobs staffean instrument formerly used for measuring the altitude of the sun; a cross-staff.
The vane of a cross-staff, made to slide along it by means of a square socket; it may be set to any of the graduations.
Even the navigators of the fifteenth century were aware of the deficiencies of the cross-staff and sought to improve upon it.
The simplest and crudest form of measurer of which the record has been preserved is known as the cross-staff.
Above, it has the small arc of the Davis quadrant with the sliding rod of the cross-staff below.
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