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Warder :: Warder (n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will..

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

Rock Staff :: Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge..

Bedstaff :: Bedstaff (n.) A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side..

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

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..

Quenouille Training :: Quenouille training () A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.

Gibstaff :: Gibstaff (n.) A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage.

Foresight :: Foresight (n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction..

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

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..

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

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

Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet..

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

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..

Ploughfoot :: Ploughfoot (n.) An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow.

Truncheon :: Truncheon (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear..

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