(Cf. sense 1c) Part of the insignia of the episcopal office, consisting of a rod or pole of wood, metal or ivory supporting a crook, or, in the…

A stick, a club, a staff for support and defence. (In 1387 applied to a crosier.) archaic.

The staff or crosier of a bishop.

The pastoral staff or crook of a bishop or abbot; a crosier.

A crutch; the head of a crutch; a staff with a crosspiece to lean upon. Also in extended use (in quot. 1400): a crozier. Cf. potence, n.1 3. Obsolete…

The pastoral staff of a bishop, abbot or abbess, shaped like a shepherd's staff; a crosier.

A pastoral staff, crook, crosier.

A crook, a crozier.

Staff, crosier.

Ecclesiastical. An archbishop's cross; also, by confusion, used for crose-staff n. at crose, n. compounds a bishop's crook or crosier. Obsolete exc…

a bishop's crozier.

Hence, apparently, crosier's staff, crosier staff, the episcopal staff or crook. Obsolete.

The pastoral staff or crook of a bishop or abbot. (= medieval Latin crocea, crocia.)

= sense 1: cf. crosier staff at crosier, n. 2b.

A pastoral staff, a crozier. Now rare.

A crosier.

a T-shaped staff or one with a T-shaped head; cf. tau crosier n.

A pastoral staff or crosier with a T-shaped head.

a pastoral staff or crosier with a T-shaped head; = sense 5.