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Meanings of distaff in English
Synonyms
Examples for "female"
Examples for "female"
1
Results: All health risk behaviours were common among male and female adolescents.
2
These days, however, the future of crime fiction is looking fabulously female.
3
If you thought female body image was a contemporary problem, think again.
4
The operation, including 70 female officers, was intended to protect public health.
5
In the male, they are the testes; in the female, the ovaries.
Usage of distaff in English
1
Queen Halcyone dropped her distaff and looked in fear at the king.
2
She disdained to put her hand to the needle and the distaff.
3
The sheep-brother stayed behind grazing while she went to get the distaff.
4
Then Wainamoinen took the pieces of her distaff and set to work.
5
She twists it round her distaff and spins it with her spindle.
6
Once her distaff fell from her hand and rolled into a cavern.
7
The flax, Mother would mass upon her distaff and spin into threads.
8
But I certainly told her that she had better mind her distaff.
9
Would it have a lighter battery to compensate for a distaff rider?
10
Her right hand held a spear, and her left a distaff and spindle.
11
The improvement on the distaff and spindle was the spinning wheel.
12
But no group raised the temperance banner higher than the nation's distaff side.
13
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
14
What followed the distaff and spindle in the development of spinning?
15
The maid of Domrémy was about to change her distaff for an oriflamme.
16
Even at the distaff I recognize Alcides, whether for evil or for good.
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Translations for distaff
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Distaff across language varieties
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