Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cowlstaff .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
colstaff .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
staff held between theshoulders of two people for carrying aburden .
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Examples
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Moses did so as our Lord had commanded, which went in and brought of the fruits with them, and they brought a branch with one cluster of grapes as much as two men might bear between them upon a colestaff.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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His glaive was as a great colestaff, and there was thereon six shekels of iron, and his squire went tofore him and cried against them of Israel, and said they should choose a man to fight a singular battle against Goliath, and if he were overcome the Philistines should be servants to Israel, and if he prevailed and overcame his enemy, they of Israel should serve the
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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