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单词 station staff
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station staff n. (a) Surveying a staff for use in measuring distances or heights; a ranging rod or levelling staff (cf. staff n.1 7e) (obsolete); (b) staff employed or deployed at a station, esp. a railway station or (formerly) †a military station (cf. staff n.1 20, 21).
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1653 W. Leybourn Compl. Surveyor iv. liii. 276 Looking through the sights, cause your first assistant to move a leafe of paper up and down your station staffe.
1708 Brit. Apollo 28 May–2 June 2 Station-Staves, with Moveable Vanes.
1838 Calcutta Monthly Jrnl. Dec. Gen. Reg. 205/2 The Kurnaul station order..directing Lieutenant W. H. Lomer..to act as station staff.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 359/2 Direct the object-end of the telescope successively to the station-staves held up on the different pickets.
1851 R. M. Laffan Railway Accident (Falmer Station) 24 The management of the carrying department interferes much with the ordinary duties of the regular station staff.
1855 Allen's Indian Mail 2 Jan. 4/1 Lieutenant R. Stewart, the adjutant, is also removed from the station staff.
1876 Eng. Mech. 18 Feb. 591/3 Make sure that the stations are so selected that he can always observe the bottom part of the iron shoe of the station staves.
1903 Times 12 Aug. 3/2 Meanwhile, the station staff were advising the passengers to leave the carriages.
2000 Independent 18 Oct. i. 2/7 Relatives awaiting passengers from the 12.10 were asked to ‘make themselves known’ to station staff.
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