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cowl-staff

cowl-staff is the alternative form of cowlstaff.

Meaning of cowlstaff

Noun

cowlstaff (plural cowlstaffs or cowlstaves)

  1. A staff used to carry a cowl or other burden, especially held by two people on their shoulders.
    • [fight] performed by bastons, clubs and coulstaves1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C....

Forms of cowl-staff

pluralcowl-staffs
pluralcowl-staves

Questions about cowl-staff

What is cowl-staff the alternative form of?
Cowl-staff is the alternative form of cowlstaff.

Words near cowl-staff in the dictionary

  1. cowl
  2. cowl flap
  3. cowl flaps
  4. cowl unit
  5. cowl units
  6. cowl-staff
  7. cowl-staffs
  8. cowl-staves
  9. Cowlairs
  10. cowld
  11. cowle

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