handstaff

Example Sentences

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Two stout sticks, the handstaff and the swingle, attached to each other by a strong band of gut, constitute its simple mechanism.

From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur

The wheat having been strewn on the barn floor, the labourer held the handstaff in both hands, swung it over his head, and brought the swingle down horizontally on to the heads of ripe corn.

From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur

So, while some were 16 barring the gates, the young devil climbed up and took down the iron flail that had the handstaff and booltheen both made out of red-hot iron.

From Humours of Irish Life by Various

So while some were barring the gates, the young devil climbed up and took down the iron flail that had the handstaff and booltheen both made out of red-hot iron.

From The Irish Fairy Book by Various

So, while some were barring the gates, the young devil climbed up, and took down the flail that had the handstaff and booltheen both made out of red-hot iron.

From Celtic Fairy Tales by Jacobs, Joseph