david's-staff

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• Staff

  ·noun The round of a ladder. II. Staff ·noun An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. III. ...

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• staff

  'To have the staff in one's own hand,' is to keep possession of one's own property, and, consequentl...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• staff

  A light pole erected in different parts of a ship, whereon to hoist and display the colours; as, the...

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• david's sow

  As drunk as David's sow; a common saying, which took its rise from the following circumstance: One D...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Cross-staff

  ·noun A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets. II. Cross-staff ·noun An instrument formerly u...

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• Rock staff

  ·vi An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. ...

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• bauk-staff

  a quarter-staff. N. ...

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• gib-staff

  1) a hook-stick, pronounced [GHIB]. York. 2) a quarter-staff. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• grain-staff

  a quarter -staff, with a short pair of tines at the end, called grains. S. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• almacantars staff

  An instrument formerly used at sea for observing the sun's amplitude, formed of an arc of about 15 d...

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• back-staff

  A name formerly given to a peculiar sea-quadrant, because the back of the observer was turned toward...

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• cross-staff

  See fore-staff. ...

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• dwang-staff

  This is otherwise the wrain-staff (which see). ...

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• flag-staff

  In contradistinction to mast-head, is the staff on a battery, or on a ship's stern, where the colour...

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• fore-staff

  An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies. The fore-staff, call...

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• futtock-staff

  A short piece of wood or iron, seized across the upper part of the shrouds at equal distances, to wh...

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• jack-staff

  A short staff raised at the bowsprit-cap, upon which the union-jack is hoisted. ...

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• jacob's staff

  , or cross-staff. A mathematical instrument to take altitudes, consisting of a brass circle, divid...

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• rule-staff

  A lath about 4 inches in breadth, used for curves in ship-building. ...

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• staff-captain

  A designation conferred in 1863 upon masters of the fleet. ...

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• staff-commanders

  A designation conferred in 1863 on masters of fifteen years' seniority. ...

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• staff-officer

  On the general staff of the army, or of a combined force. See staff. ...

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• whip-staff

  See whipII ...

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• wrain-staff

  A stout billet of tough wood, tapered at its ends, so as to go into the ring of the wrain-bolt, to m...

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• (St.) David's Bishop of, Inn

  Near the cemetery of St. Bride, Fleet Street, in 1311 (Dugdale, ii. 304). Opposite the north side o...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Ragged Staff Alley

  In Fleet Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

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• regimental staff-officers

  The surgeon, adjutant, paymaster, assistant-surgeon, and quarter-master of each regiment. ...

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• The Bear and Ragged Staff

  A tenement in the parish of St. John the Evangelist in Watling Street near St. Paul's Church now kno...

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• Bear and Ragged Staff Alley

  East out of Red Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, ed. 1720). The si...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Bear and Ragged Staff Inn, West Smithfield

  See Bear Inn. ...

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