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Truncheon :: Truncheon (n.) A baton, or military staff of command..

Conductor :: Conductor (n.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director..

Staved :: Stave (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

Rodsman :: Rodsman (n.) One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party..

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..

Tipstaff :: Tipstaff (n.) A staff tipped with metal.

Etat Major :: Etat Major () The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers..

Stadia :: Stadimeter (n.) A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances..

Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..

Staffs :: Staffs (pl. ) of Staf.

Fate :: Fate (n.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread..

Officer :: Officer (n.) One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer..

Staff :: Staff (n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds..

Verge :: Verge (n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean..

Staffish :: Staffier (n.) An attendant bearing a staff.

Baculometry :: Baculometry (n.) Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.

Palster :: Palster (n.) A pilgrim's staff.

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

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..

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

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