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

Flagstaff :: Flagstaff (n.) A staff on which a flag is hoisted.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the union to the extreme end..

Sceptre :: Sceptre (n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace..

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

Baton :: Baton (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances..

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

Partisan :: Partisan (n.) A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff..

Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.

Bill :: Bill (n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff..

Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through..

Rock Staff :: Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge..

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..

Wand :: Wand (n.) A staff of authority.

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