Definition of staff

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Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.

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Wand :: Wand (n.) A staff of authority.
Flagstaff :: Flagstaff (n.) A staff on which a flag is hoisted.
Distaff :: Distaff (n.) Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively..
Tipstaff :: Tipstaff (n.) A staff tipped with metal.
Baculometry :: Baculometry (n.) Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.
Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
Vibrate :: Vibrate (v. t.) To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff..
Staffs :: Staffs (pl. ) of Staf.
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.
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..
Staff :: Staff (n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff..
Staff :: Staff (n.) The round of a ladder.
Caduceus :: Caduceus (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top..
Tinker :: Tinker (n.) A small mortar on the end of a staff.
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..
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 It is now superseded by the bayonet..
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..
Staff :: Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder..
Mourne :: Mourne (n.) The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached..
Cowlstaff :: Cowlstaff (n.) A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons.
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