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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..

Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..

Vare :: Vare (n.) A wand or staff of authority or justice.

Truncheon :: Truncheon (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear..

Club :: Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel..

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

Note :: Note (n.) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:.

Staff :: Staff (n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds..

Stick :: Stick (v. t.) Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick..

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

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

Staddle :: Staddle (v. i.) Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.

Cane :: Cane (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.

Partisan :: Partisan (n.) A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff..

Verge :: Verge (n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore..

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

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 It is now superseded by the bayonet..

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..

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

Space :: Space (n.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff..

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