Crossword-Solution: DISTAFF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Distaff | n. | The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand. |
| Distaff | n. | Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “DISTAFF”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Opposite of spear | 1 answer |
| Wool-spinning spindle | 1 answer |
| rod on which wool etc is wound for spinning | 1 answer |
| WORK of a woman | 1 answer |
| The female side in a family tree | 1 answer |
| Stick on which wool is wound before spinning | 1 answer |
| spinning wheel | 1 answer |
| the sphere of work by women | 1 answer |
| Rod on which wool or flax is wound before spinning | 1 answer |
| HAND spinning wheel, corresponding part of | 1 answer |
| Female line | 1 answer |
| Family's female side | 1 answer |
| FEMALE side of family | 1 answer |
| Attachment on a spinning wheel | 1 answer |
| A stick or spindle on to which wool or flax is wound for spinning | 1 answer |
| the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning | 1 answer |
| Spinning wheel attachment | 2 answers |
| Women in general. | 2 answers |
| Spinning-wheel attachment | 3 answers |
| Female | 33 answers |
| maternal | 44 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DISTAFF (5)
Her long dishevelled grey hair flew back from her uncovered head; the inebriating delight of gratified vengeance contended in her eyes with the fire of insanity; and she brandished the distaff which she held in her hand, as if she had been one of the Fatal Sisters, who spin and abridge the thread of human life.
Having regard to the period, and to the alchemistic nature of the goods that composed so much of Anne's stock-in-trade at the sign of the Golden Distaff, in Paternoster Row, it may be conjectured that the love-lorn Frances had thoughts of a philtre.
The Princess shall indeed pierce her hand with a spindle; but, instead of dying, she shall only fall into a profound sleep, which shall last a hundred years, at the expiration of which a king’s son shall come and awake her.” The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old Fairy, caused immediately proclamation to be made, whereby everybody was forbidden, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle, or to have so much as any spindle in their houses.
Meek, mouse-colored donkeys, laden with panniers of freshly cut grass passed by, with a pretty girl in a capaline sitting between the green piles, or an old woman spinning with a distaff as she went.
The Princess sent to each of the fairies a new spinning-wheel with a distaff of cedar wood, and the Queen said she must look through her treasures and find something very charming to send them also.
Quotes with DISTAFF (2)
Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman. Had it been possible for the earth and mankind to be entirely in her grasp for a while, she had handled the distaff, the spindle, and the shears at her own free will, few in the world would have noticed the change of government. There would have been the…
Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks in the dusk, spinning. They each have a spindle, and on to these they are spinning their wool, milk-white, like the moonlight. In fact, it is the moonlight, the moon itself, which is why they don't carry a distaff. They're not Fates, or anything terrible; they don't affect the lives of men; all they have to do is to see that the world gets its hours of darkness, and they do thi…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1955–2018).