Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Backsight

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Backsight


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(n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.