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ragged staff
[ragged a.1 2.]
1. A staff with projecting stumps or knobs; chiefly in reference to the badge or crest of the Earls of Warwick.
1449Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 222 The Bere..hath lost his ragged staffe. 1556Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden) 73 The pepulle sayd dyvers that ther was the ragyd staffe. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. i. 203 Old Neuils Crest, The rampant Beare chain'd to the ragged staffe. 1685Temple Ess., Gardens Wks. 1731 I. 185 [Vines] should be left but like a Ragged Staff, not above two or three Eyes at most upon the Bearing Branches. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Penrith, A town-house..beautified with bears climbing up a ragged staff. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Aristocracy Wks. (Bohn) II. 78 The black ragged staff, his badge.
2. Naut. (See quot.)
1805W. Hunter in Naval Chron. XIII. 13, I was one day watering at the ragged Staff. [Note. So called from the Stump Mast..fitted into the Launch, when sent to get water, in order to hoist the Casks in and out.] |