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Definition of staff

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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..

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Direct :: Direct (n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation..

Stick :: Stick (v. t.) Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick..

Cane :: Cane (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff..

Rock :: Rock (n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning..

Alpenstock :: Alpenstock (n.) A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps..

Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..

Wringstaff :: Wringstaff (n.) A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.

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 :: Staffs (pl. ) of Staf.

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

Bacillar :: Bacillar (a.) Shaped like a rod or staff.

Staffmen :: Staffish (a.) Stiff; harsh.

Blond Metal :: Blond metal () A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools..

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

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

#NAME? :: -staffs (pl. ) of Flagstaf.

Rack :: Rack (a.) A distaff.

Colestaff :: Colestaff (n.) See Colstaff.

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..