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单词 ragged staff
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ragged staffn.

Brit. /raɡᵻd ˈstɑːf/, /raɡᵻd ˈstaf/, U.S. /ræɡəd ˈstæf/
Forms: see ragged adj.1 and staff n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ragged adj.1, staff n.1
Etymology: < ragged adj.1 + staff n.1
1. Heraldry. A representation of a staff with projecting stumps or knobs; an actual staff of this kind.Frequently with reference to the badge or crest of the Earls of Warwick, on which a bear is depicted with a ragged staff. The crest has also become associated more generally with the county of Warwickshire.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > of noble houses
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1397 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/266/12) j lectus cum integr. celur. de blod. Satyn embroidat. cum ragget staues in j nigr. plake de veluet.
c1450 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 202 (MED) The Bere..hath lost his ragged staff.
1462 J. Paston Inventory in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 108 A ragged staff wyth diuers presious stones deliuerid to the Kyng by the assent and comaundement of my lord of Caunterbury.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 73 The pepulle sayd dyvers that ther was the ragyd staffe.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 v. i. 201 Old Neuels crest, The Rampant Beare chaind to the ragged staffe.
1660 Booke Remayne Office of Armory in Archaeol. Jrnl. (1847) 4 349 Upon a like Horse, one Armour complete, cap-a-pe, engraven with the ragged staffe, made for the Earle of Leicester.
1690 W. Temple Ess. Gardens of Epicurus in Wks. (1731) I. 185 [Vines] should be left but like a Ragged Staff, not above two or three Eyes at most upon the Bearing Branches.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Penrith A T.-house..beautified with Bears climbing up a ragged staff.
1796 T. Holcroft Man of Ten Thousand 87 With bludgeon arm'd, to knock down those that laugh, He sallies forth..the Bear and ragged staff!
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 178 The black ragged staff, his badge.
1884 Church Bells 6 Sept. 940 In the roof are bosses, on one of which is carved a bear and ragged staff, for Beauchamp.
1944 M. Waldman Elizabeth & Leicester (1945) ii. 37 The Bear and the Ragged Staff, distinctive badge of the Earls of Warwick, proclaimed on his servants' liveries the revival of the historic title.
1991 Daily Tel. 18 Feb. 6/7 Among the similarities are the ragged staff edgemould, a pointed leaf with a raised spine, his woodpeckers and entwined stems.
2. Nautical. Perhaps: a stump mast (see quot. 1805). Obsolete.
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1782 T. Pasley Jrnl. 1 Mar. in Private Sea Jrnls. (1931) 235 Early this morning saw a sail right ahead; gave chase and about 8 came up along side a Spanish Brigg, when she hauled down her Ragged Staff.
1805 W. Hunter in Naval Chron. 13 13 I was one day watering at the ragged Staff. (Note. So called from the Stump Mast..fitted into the Launch, when sent to get water, in order to hoist the Casks in and out.)
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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