Usually means: Tool for surveying and navigation.
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  1. Jacob's-staff, Jacob's staff: Merriam-Webster
  2. Jacob's staff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Jacob's staff, Jacob's staff: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Jacob's staff: Vocabulary.com
  5. Jacob's staff: Wordnik
  6. Jacob's staff: Wiktionary
  7. Jacob's staff: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Jacob's staff, jacob's staff, jacobs staff: Dictionary.com
  9. Jacob's staff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Jacob's staff: Rhymezone
  11. jacobs-staff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. jacobs staff: FreeDictionary.org
  13. jacob's staff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Jacob's staff: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Jacobs Staff: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Jacob's staff: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (Jacob's staff)

noun:  (surveying) A single straight rod or staff, pointed and iron-shod at the bottom, for penetrating the ground, and having a socket joint at the top, used, instead of a tripod, for supporting a compass.
noun:  Verbascum thapsus, the common mullein.
noun:  The ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens), one of certain desert shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers.


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