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Swinglebar :: Swingle (n.) A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand..

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..

Cane :: Cane (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.

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

Target :: Target (n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff..

Batlet :: Batlet (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff..

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

Potent :: Potent (n.) A staff or crutch.

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

Transom :: Transom (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.

Bar :: Bar (n.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures..

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

Rack :: Rack (a.) A distaff.

Diminuendo :: Diminuendo (adv.) In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign..

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..

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..

Tipstaff :: Tipstaff (n.) An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable.

Tenth :: Tenth (n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third..

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

Distaff :: Distaff (n.) Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively..

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