And thus ſhall ye eate it [the lamb]: with your loines girded, your ſhooes on your feet, and yourſtaffe in your hand: and ye ſhall eate it in haſte: it is theLords Paſſeouer.
The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also astaff.
The company has taken on 1600 more highly-paidstaff.
1940 July, “Notes and News: A Magnificent Transport Achievement”, inRailway Magazine, page419:
No department of the Southern Railway escaped some share of the work involved, and the outdoor traffic and locomotivestaffs in particular were engaged literally night and day, snatching a few hours' sleep as opportunity offered, until the task was completed.
Moststaff do not have the skills to cope with such challenging patients, who too often receive "impersonal" care and suffer from boredom, the first National Audit of Dementia found. It says hospitals should introduce "dementia champions".
2023 November 25, Rebecca Rose, “How old is too old for a profile pic?”, inFT Weekend, Life & Arts, page22:
It turns out that, in journalistic terms, and especially at the FT, where manystaff see out their entire careers, seven years is nothing.
Me thought thisſtaffe mine Office-badge in Court / Was broke in twaine:
a.1628 (date written),John Hayward,The Life, and Raigne of KingEdward the Sixt, London:[…][Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge,[…], published1630,→OCLC:
All his officers brake theirstaves; but at their return newstaves were delivered unto them.
A pole upon which aflag is supported and displayed.
1739,John Campbell,The Travels and Adventures of Edward Bevan, Esq.:
I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-ninestaves.
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; astave.
1697,Virgil, “To the Most HonourableJohn, Lord Marquess ofNormanby, Earl ofMulgrave, &c. and Knight of theMost Noble Order of the Garter”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC,page[192]:
Mr.Cowley had found out, that no kind ofStaff is proper for an Heroick Poem; as being all too lirical:
(surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
(military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
At the head of that division which had Westminster Bridge for its approach to the scene of action, Lord George Gordon took his post; with Gashford at his right hand, and sundry ruffians, of most unpromising appearance, forming a kind ofstaff about him.
(rail transport,archaic) A form of token once used, in combination with a ticket, for safe train movements between two points on a single line.
1946 July and August, “Wise's TrainStaff”, inRailway Magazine, page214:
The train-staff and ticket system was used widely at one time, until superseded by electrical token systems, the first of which, the tablet system, appeared in 1878,[…].
1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, inRailway Magazine, page355:
The first up train was the morning semi-fastex Buncrana, which sped through with No. 8 at its head, adroitly exchangingstaffs at about 15 m.p.h.[…] The next train through Tooban was our opposite number, and we duly received the vitalstaff.
1951 November, R. K. Kirkland, “The Wimbledon and West Croydon Line of the Southern Region”, inRailway Magazine, page726:
The unusual rolling stock, the fare collection methods, and the exchange of trainstaffs make it quite clear that here is something out of the ordinary run of suburban electric lines.
1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, inTrains Illustrated, page750:
Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed andstaffed by the Bernese Oberland group.
Lestaff apparaît grâce au Français Mézier qui vers 1850 a l’idée de réaliser une première corniche préfabriquée armée d’une toile de jute. Dès lors l’emploi dustaff se développe rapidement jusqu’à atteindre son apogée à la belle époque. (French Wikipedia)
Staff was invented by a Frenchman named Mézier, who around 1850 had the idea to make the first prefabricated cornice using hessian. From then on the use ofstaff grew rapidly before reaching its peak during the Belle Époque.
2015 September 12, “Más que un club”, inEl País[1]:
Albiol regatea la caseta de Ciudadanos y llega al área de la de Sociedad Civil Catalana, otra ONG no-nacionalista, sobre la que el periodista Jordi Borràs, por cierto, acaba de sacar articulazo vinculando a sustaff con la extrema derecha, ese equipo.
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “staff”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
