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Baculometry :: Baculometry (n.) Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.

Linstock :: Linstock (n.) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon..

Baston :: Baston (n.) A staff or cudgel.

Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through..

Staffish :: Staffier (n.) An attendant bearing a staff.

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

Signature :: Signature (v. t.) The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major..

Burdon :: Burdon (n.) A pilgrim's staff.

Rock Staff :: Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge..

Yard :: Yard (v. i.) A rod; a stick; a staff.

Staves :: Staves (n.) pl. of Staff.

Fate :: Fate (n.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread..

Crosier :: Crosier (n.) The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God..

Adjutant :: Adjutant (n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty..

Meteyard :: Meteyard (n.) A yard, staff, or rod, used as a measure..

Transom :: Transom (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

Staff :: Staff (n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff..

Flagstaff :: Flagstaff (n.) A staff on which a flag is hoisted.

Gibstaff :: Gibstaff (n.) A staff to guage water, or to push a boat..

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