Definition of staff

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Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder..

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Transom :: Transom (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.
Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc..
Conductor :: Conductor (n.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director..
Stag :: Staffman (n.) A workman employed in silk throwing.
Staff :: Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..
Whipstaff :: Whipstaff (n.) A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering..
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..
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..
C :: C () The C clef, a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C..
Pikestaff :: Pikestaff (n.) The staff, or shaft, of a pike..
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.
Partisan :: Partisan (n.) A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff..
#NAME? :: -staffs (pl. ) of Flagstaf.
Staff :: Staff (n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike..
Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff..
Distaff :: Distaff (n.) Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively..
Warder :: Warder (n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will..
Club :: Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel..
Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..
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