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Baston :: Baston (n.) A staff or cudgel.

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

Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet..

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

Yard :: Yard (v. i.) A rod; a stick; a staff.

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

Crook :: Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

Baston :: Baston (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court..

Staff :: Staff (n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff..

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

Professoriate :: Professoriate (n.) The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State..

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

Tinker :: Tinker (n.) A small mortar on the end of a staff.

Ploughfoot :: Ploughfoot (n.) An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow.

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.

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

Flag :: Flag (n.) A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag..

Staff :: Staff (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch..

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

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