Usually means: Spanning notes between different staves.
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  1. cross-staff: Merriam-Webster
  2. cross-staff: Wordnik
  3. cross-staff: Wiktionary
  4. cross-staff: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Cross-staff, cross-staff: Dictionary.com
  6. Cross-staff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Cross-staff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. cross-staff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Cross-staff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. cross-staff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. cross-staff: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Cross-staff: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cross-staff: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (cross-staff)

noun:  (ecclesiastical, obsolete) A archbishop's cross.
noun:  (historical) An early instrument, consisting of a wooden rod with a sliding crosspiece, used for measuring the altitude of a star or for surveying.

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