Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A staff or pole on which a tub or other vessel or weight is supported between two persons.
Wiktionary
- n. A staff held by two people, one in each end, and used to carry a load.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons.
Examples
“COLSTAFF, cowlstaff, pole for carrying a cowl = tub.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cowlstaff’.
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Owls
owl, owls, bowl, howl, acknowledge, batfowl, barn owl, barred owl, bowlder, bowler, bowlegged, lawn bowling and 40 more...
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Archaic
Because they just don't make 'em like they used to.
comeling, circuition, assentment, advisement, accompts, apertness, larum, soothfastness, deperdition, marish, covin, tinct and 166 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Palsters and Pateressas
The staff in its variety.
pleugh-paidle, picker-staff, picking-stick, plow-staff, colstaff, cowlstaff, leveling staff, lituus, jō, Jacob's staff, cantoral staff, jack staff and 41 more...
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