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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slender staff or rod graduated into feet or links, used in surveying: employed both as a visible object to sight to when held vertically over a given point, and also as a rough linear measuring-scale for short distances such as offsets from a given line or point; a flag-staff or flag-pole.
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