Word.ws English Dictionary

forestaffs

forestaffs is the plural of forestaff.

Meaning of forestaff

Noun

forestaff (plural forestaffs or forestaves)

  1. An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, later replaced by the sextant.
    • with a Forestaff, take the Altitude of the North Star1722, Andrew Wakely, The Mariner's Compass
    Synonyms:
    cross-staff

Questions about forestaffs

What is forestaffs the plural of?
Forestaffs is the plural of forestaff.

Words near forestaffs in the dictionary

  1. forest-blue
  2. forest-blues
  3. forest-born
  4. Foresta
  5. forestaff
  6. forestaffs
  7. forestage
  8. forestaged
  9. forestages
  10. forestaging
  11. forestair

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: forestaffs (page history and authors); forestaff (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “forestaffs.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/forestaffs. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.