Reverse Dictionary: STAFF

NOUNS
1000 — YARD a staff or stick carried in the hand as a walking-stick, or by a shepherd or herdsman → obs.
1300 — BASTON a staff or stick used as a weapon or a staff of office; a cudgel, a club, a truncheon → obs.
1481 — PALSTER a pilgrim’s staff → obs.
1548 — BATON a staff or stick used as a weapon, sometimes also of iron, or iron-tipped; a club, a cudgel, or truncheon → obs.
1598 — BASTINADO a stick, staff, rod, cudgel, truncheon
1606 — KENT a long staff, properly such a one as shepherds use for leaping over ditches or brooks; a long pole used in leaping ditches, climbing mountains, etc. → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1607 — BEARING-BACK a peddler’s staff for carrying his pack → obs.
1625 — BATOON a stout staff or stick used as a weapon; a cudgel, a club, a truncheon → arch.
1816 — KEBBIE → KEBBY a staff or stick with a hooked head → N. Eng. dial. & Sc.
1862 — CAMMOCK → CUMMOCK a crooked stick; a short staff with a crooked head; any kind of walking stick → Sc.
1886 — BAT a cudgel, a staff; a thick walking-stick → Eng. dial.
1899 — SAP a club or short staff → US sl.