"Distaff" is a word in ENGLISH
The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from
which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a
woman; women, collectively.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the …
Read the complete definitionA regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of …
Read the complete definitionA long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps.
Read the complete definition(Lat ring aud staff.) The investiture of a. bishop was per annulum et baculum, by the prince's de-liver ing to …
Read the complete definitionOf the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon.
Read the complete definitionOne attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.
Read the complete definitionIn English law. An ancient mode of weighiug, described by Cowell as “a kind of weight with scales hanging, or …
Read the complete definitionShaped like a rod or staff.
Read the complete definitionThe reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new …
Read the complete definitionMeasurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.
Read the complete definitionA vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
Read the complete definitionAn officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons …
Read the complete definitionbastón - (Sp. bastón) Stick, cane, rod; walking-stick; to cane, beat with a stick, give the stick. Bastoná siá. Give …
Read the complete definitionA staff or cudgel.
Read the complete definitionIn old English law, a baton, club, or staff. A term applied to officers of the wardens of the prison …
Read the complete definitionA short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.
Read the complete definitionA staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor …
Read the complete definitionA weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, …
Read the complete definitionA pilgrim's staff.
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