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Pikestaff :: Pikestaff (n.) The staff, or shaft, of a pike..

Staffmen :: Staffish (a.) Stiff; harsh.

Cadre :: Cadre (n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.

Bacillar :: Bacillar (a.) Shaped like a rod or staff.

Staff :: Staffs (pl. ) of Staf.

Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet..

Direct :: Direct (n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation..

Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..

Bill :: Bill (n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff..

Crook :: Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

Cudgel :: Cudgel (n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon..

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff..

Etat Major :: Etat Major () The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers..

Staff :: Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder..

Mace :: Mace (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor..

Staffier :: Staff (n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper..

A :: A () The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G..

Stave :: Stave (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.

Staff :: Staff (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.

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