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Perch :: Perch (n.) A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat..

Distaff :: Distaff (n.) The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand..

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

Tenth :: Tenth (n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third..

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

Staff :: Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.

Stadia :: Stadimeter (n.) A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances..

Staved :: Stave (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

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

Wand :: Wand (n.) A staff of authority.

#NAME? :: -staffs (pl. ) of Flagstaf.

Reportorial :: Reportorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a reporter or reporters; as, the reportorial staff of a newspaper..

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

Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.

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..

Bedpost :: Bedpost (n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff..

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

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

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

Staff :: Staffs (pl. ) of Staf.

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