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

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

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..

Staffish :: Staffier (n.) An attendant bearing a staff.

Attache :: Attache (v. t.) One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy..

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..

Staffs :: Staffs (pl. ) of Staf.

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

Staff :: Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave..

Rodsman :: Rodsman (n.) One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party..

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..

Quarterstaff :: Quarterstaff (n.) A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end..

Shake :: Shake (n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.

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..

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

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

Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through..

Officer :: Officer (n.) One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer..

Rung :: Rung (n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

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

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