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A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
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A distaff.
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A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.
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The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
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Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively.
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A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
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The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
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