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Backsight
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Backsight'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/backsight.html. 1828.