Staff
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Staff may refer to:
Rods
- Staff of office, a stick that indicates a position
- Staff (railway signalling), a token authorizing a locomotive driver to use a particular stretch of single track
- Level staff, also called levelling rod, a graduated rod for comparing heights
- Fire staff, a staff of wood or metal and Kevlar, used for fire dancing and performance
- Flagstaff, on which a flag is flown
- Marotte, a staff with a carved image of a head at the tip used by a Jester
- The weapon used in stick fighting
- Quarterstaff, a long pole used as a medieval weapon
- Bō, a long stick used as a weapon, usually in Japanese martial arts
- Gun (staff), a weapon in Chinese martial arts
- Walking stick, a device to facilitate balancing while walking
- Sceptre or scepter, a symbolic ornamental rod borne in the hand by a ruling monarch
- Scout staff, a tall stick traditionally used by Boy Scouts, which has a number of uses in an emergency
- Wand, a thin, straight, hand-held ceremonial stick
- Shepherd's crook
- A divining rod used in rhabdomancy
People
Other uses
- People in employment within any organization
- Staff (military), the organ of military command and planning
- Staff (music), a set of five horizontal lines upon which notes are placed in written music notation
- Staff (building material) (short for staffieren), an artificial stone product used as ornament
- Smart Target-Activated Fire and Forget (XM943 STAFF), an American-made experimental 120mm tank gun shell
- Staff writer, a byline denoting an author employed by the publisher
- Staff, a nickname for the Staffordshire Bull Terrier
- Baton sinister, a charge used in heraldry
See also
- Stuff (disambiguation), a group of items or matter
- Staphylococcus, bacteria which can cause infection
- Stave (disambiguation)
- Shaft (disambiguation)
- Stick (disambiguation)
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