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1888, William John Gordon, The Captain-general: Being the Story of the Attempt of the Dutch to Colonize New Holland:
There was a “pole” duly graduated, and on it, so as to slip up and down, were certain cross-pieces known as “transversaries.”
1992, Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin, The Mariner's Mirror:
In Coignet's cross-staff not one but three transversaries are used. With these transversaries angles between respectively 90° and 30°, 30° and 10° and less than 10° are measured.
