a metal rod or staff

(obsolete) elephant

Kita (one of 23 special wards in Tokyo prefecture, Japan) / (historical) the red-light district north of Edo Castle / a surname / a female given name

to go northwards

an empress / any other wife of a male aristocrat, such as a queen

A ruler's wife; queen; empress.

straw sandals

(dialectal, Tōhoku, Northern Kantō, Niigata, Nagano, Chūgoku, etc.) Nonstandard form of むこ (muko) above

to contribute, to donate / to call on / to lodge at somebody else's house / to be dependent on somebody / to increase, to gain / to draw near / to send away

knock / pick out / ridicule