, in Surveying are the perpendiculars let fall, and measured from the station lines, to the corners or bends in the hedge, fence, or boundary of any ground.
Offset-Staff, a slender rod or ftaff, of 10 links, or other convenient length. Its use is for measuring the Offsets, and other short lines and distances.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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