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

Assistant :: Assistant (a.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon..

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..

Linstock :: Linstock (n.) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon..

Staddle :: Staddle (v. i.) Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.

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

Tipstaff :: Tipstaff (pl. ) of Tipstaf.

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

Club :: Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel..

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

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

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..

Staff :: Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major..

Rack :: Rack (a.) A distaff.

Baston :: Baston (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court..

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

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

Baston :: Baston (n.) A staff or cudgel.

Colestaff :: Colestaff (n.) See Colstaff.

Mace :: Mace (n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority..

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