distaffs in English
noun
1
a stick or spindle onto which wool or flax is wound for spinning.
Then she brought forth a sack of carded wool, and three distaffs , and brought this all over to where we sat.
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1. 4 Distaffs may also be attached to a spinning wheel or be floor standing.
2. Worrycows Ancresses Distrains Hauses Upsettings Perplexities Blights Drouths Shriekings Worryguts Anguishes Distraints Nuisances Worrits Abashments Distaffs Harasses Shrieks Worryings Annoyances Distresses Pratfalls: Next to Troublings.