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Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc..

Rack :: Rack (a.) A distaff.

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

Gonfanon :: Gonfanon (n.) A name popularly given to any flag which hangs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself.

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

Stag :: Staffman (n.) A workman employed in silk throwing.

Staffman :: Staffmen (pl. ) of Staffma.

Pestle :: Pestle (n.) A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.

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..

Stave :: Stave (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

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

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Tinker :: Tinker (n.) A small mortar on the end of a staff.

Tipstaff :: Tipstaff (pl. ) of Tipstaf.

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

Staffier :: Staff (n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper..

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

Bill :: Bill (n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff..

Augural :: Augural (a.) Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books..

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