The official staff or baton of a cantor or precentor, with which time is marked for the singers.

(military) A group of officers in charge of an army under the control of the commander-in-chief.

An ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setting, to find the variation of the compass.

A surveyor's rod, usually ten links long, used in measuring offsets.

An instrument for taking angles in surveying.

(surveying) A single straight rod or staff, pointed and iron-shod at the bottom, for penetrating the ground, and having a socket joint at the top, used, instead of a tripod, for supporting a compass.

Any of the genus Celastrus of shrubs and vines.

(architecture) A square rod of wood standing flush with the wall on each of its sides, at the external angles of plastering, to prevent their being damaged.

plural of Aesculapian staff

plural of general staff