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ˈhand-staff
1. A staff-like handle; spec. that part of a flail by which it is held.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 594/47 Manutercium, an hand⁓staf. Item..an handele. c1440Promp. Parv. 165/2 Fleyl staffe or honde staffe. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 333/1 The Caplings [of a flail]..are the strong double Leathers made fast to the top of the Hand-staff. 1827H. Neele Rom. Hist. (1831) I. 77 Every English lance was red to the hand-staff with blood. 1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 161 By means of the reciprocating motion of a lever to which [in bellows] the racket or handstaff is attached.
†2. A popular name of some asterism; according to Jamieson, ‘supposed to be Orion's sword’. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 154 The son, the sevin sternis, and the Charll wane, The elwand, the elementis, and Arthuris hufe, The horne and the hand staff. a1605Montgomerie Flyting w. Polwart 419 Be the..Charlewaine, Be the hornes, the handstaff, and the king's ell.
†3. A staff carried as a weapon. Obs.
The word is a literal rendering of the Hebrew.
1611Bible Ezek. xxxix. 9 They..shall..burne the weapons..the bowes and the arrowes, and the handstaues [marg. iauelins, 1382 Wyclif stafs of hond] and the speares. |