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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 It is now superseded by the bayonet..

Gisarm :: Gisarm (n.) A weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers..

Tipstaff :: Tipstaff (n.) An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable.

Cane :: Cane (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.

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..

Staffier :: Staff (n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper..

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

Malkin :: Malkin (n.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.

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

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..

Elevate :: Elevate (v. t.) To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc..

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff..

Staves :: Staves (n.) pl. of Staff.

Rung :: Rung (n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

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

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

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

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

Truncheon :: Truncheon (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear..

Space :: Space (n.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff..

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