cowl-staff THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iii. 3. 129.
“A staff [or pole], used for carrying a large tub or basket,
with two handles [held on the shoulders of two persons]. In Essex the word cowl is yet used for a
tub”
(MALONE)
.
“Courge . . . a Stang,
Pale-staffe, or Colestaffe, carried on the shoulder, and notched (for the hanging of a
Pale, etc.) at both ends.”
Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl.
Dict.; and see Way's note on the Prompt. Parv. p.
97.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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