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Distaffs :: Distaffs (pl. ) of Distaf.

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..

Stave :: Stave (n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off..

Flag :: Flag (n.) A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag..

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

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

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff..

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..

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..

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

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

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below..

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

Staff :: Staff (n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike..

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..

Pikestaff :: Pikestaff (n.) A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping..

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

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

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

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

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