Similar words: staff, pikestaff, chief of staff, distant, distaste, distance, equidistant, in the distance. Meaning: ['dɪstɑːf] 
n. 1. the sphere of work by women 2. the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning. adj. characteristic of or peculiar to a woman.
n. 1. the sphere of work by women 2. the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning. adj. characteristic of or peculiar to a woman. 
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1, The distaff whirled, twisting the threads.
2, Made curious, she took the distaff in her hand and began to draw out the thread.
3, Out of it she drew a little distaff, much as we would draw out a pair of knitting needles.
4, He is my uncle on the distaff side.
5, The worker is pushing the distaff.
6, But one person could only, with a distaff , make one thread at a time.
7, Betushka had no distaff, so she wound the flax around her head. Then she took the little basket and went romping and singing behind the goats to the birch wood.
8, There were different about their attitudes toward distaff , but what they searched were harmonious relationship between men and women and human beauty future.
9, This eighteenth-century fascination with funerary exactitude was not limited to the distaff side of society.
10, The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff.
11, Men who did not take the cross received gifts of distaff and wool,(http://sentencedict.com/distaff.html) implying that they were no better than women.
12, She is associated with a bridge, a subterranean aqueduct and a magic distaff, one of the symbols of Athene.
13, She adjusted the loose threads in one hand and held the distaff in the other.
14, Now retired the art teacher as was is painting flat out full time whilst the other runs the distaff side.
15, In modern part, we put emphasis on two pieces of works of Su Tong and Li Bihua (Hong Kong) , and tries to discover the development of Chinese distaff literature in their movies.
16, The foot on the cradle, the hand on the distaff, a sign of good housewife.
17, Stone looked terrific in Western duds playing something of a distaff version of a Clint Eastwood-like gunfighter.
18, They may find they have more two on their distaff that they know how to spin.
19, At the moment several new factors are combining to favour the distaff side more.
20, But the neuroscientists believe they have an answer to this scientific riddle, uncovering a distaff preference for red, hidden atop the universal liking for blue.
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