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Значения термина distaff на английском

русский
кенуй
португальский
roca de fiar
каталонский
filosa
испанский
rueca

Stick or staff for holding fibre to be spun.

кенуй

Characteristic of or peculiar to a woman.

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Examples for "rock"
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He said: ''My business is with Isengard tonight, with rock and stone.''
The two towers
2
Four Icelanders and an American asked the question: Can rock climbing help?
Climbing Magazine
3
The government plans to control the state before hitting rock-bottom, he said.
Reuters
4
However, local climbers have long felt the area's dearth of quality rock.
Climbing Magazine
5
There is a rock rising from a great turquoise sea of sand.
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Использование термина distaff на английском
1
Queen Halcyone dropped her distaff and looked in fear at the king.
Stories of Birds
2
She disdained to put her hand to the needle and the distaff.
Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volum...
3
The sheep-brother stayed behind grazing while she went to get the distaff.
Armenian Literature: Comprising Poetry, Drama, Folk-lore and Cla...
4
Then Wainamoinen took the pieces of her distaff and set to work.
Finnish Legends for English Children
5
She twists it round her distaff and spins it with her spindle.
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2
6
Once her distaff fell from her hand and rolled into a cavern.
Armenian Literature: Comprising Poetry, Drama, Folk-lore and Cla...
7
The flax, Mother would mass upon her distaff and spin into threads.
My Boyhood
8
But I certainly told her that she had better mind her distaff.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
9
Would it have a lighter battery to compensate for a distaff rider?
Wired
10
Her right hand held a spear, and her left a distaff and spindle.
Helen of troy
11
The improvement on the distaff and spindle was the spinning wheel.
Textiles, for Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools ...
12
But no group raised the temperance banner higher than the nation's distaff side.
The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
13
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
14
What followed the distaff and spindle in the development of spinning?
Textiles, for Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools ...
15
The maid of Domrémy was about to change her distaff for an oriflamme.
Wanderings by Southern Waters, Eastern Aquitaine
16
Even at the distaff I recognize Alcides, whether for evil or for good.
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
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португальский
roca de fiar
каталонский
filosa
испанский
rueca
Distaff через время
Distaff в диалектах
Великобритания
Частое