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Clef :: Clef (n.) A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

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

Malkin :: Malkin (n.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.

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

Tipstaff :: Tipstaff (n.) A staff tipped with metal.

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

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..

Radiometer :: Radiometer (n.) A forestaff.

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

Mourne :: Mourne (n.) The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached..

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:.

Plant :: Plant (n.) A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff..

Second :: Second (n.) The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.

Flail :: Flail (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely..

Target :: Target (n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff..

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

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State..

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

Gisarm :: Gisarm (n.) A weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers..

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

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