staff (3 common Eliz.)
1.
shaft of a lance
John II. i. 318
“There stuck no plume in
any English crest That is removed by a
staff of France,”
R3 V. iii. 65
“Look that my staves be
sound; break a ”
=break a lance (see BREAK) Ado V. i. 141.
2.
“set in” one's “,” make oneself at home Err. III. i. 51.
3.
strophe, stanza LLL. IV. ii.
108.
