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backsight

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BACKSIGHT

Back "sight `, n. Etym: [Back, adv. + sight. ] (Surv.)

Defn: 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.

New American Oxford Dictionary

backsight

back |sight |ˈbaksʌɪt | ▶noun 1 the sight of a rifle or other weapon that is nearer the eye of the person aiming. 2 Surveying a sight or reading taken backwards or towards the point of starting.

Oxford Dictionary

backsight

back |sight |ˈbaksʌɪt | ▶noun 1 the sight of a rifle or other weapon that is nearer the eye of the person aiming. 2 Surveying a sight or reading taken backwards or towards the point of starting.