Noun:

ତକଲି |,

distaff's Usage Examples:

closely related to genera such as Carthamus (distaff thistles), Cnicus (blessed thistle), Crupina (crupinas) or Notobasis (Syrian thistle), and somewhat less.

Gorodets craftsmen used the incrustation technique to ornament the distaffs.

successor to Henry Huggins that the author is as well acquainted with the whisperings, weeps and whoops of third grade distaff side.

inexorable goddess of death, who carries a few scissors to cut the thread of life; Clotho, with her distaff (which Goya replaces with a doll or newborn.

mills as well as a collection of traditional household articles such as distaffs, knitting-frames, chums, clothes, carpets, pottery and furniture.

Queen Bertha of Burgundy instructing girls to spin flax on spindles using distaffs.

used to decorate various wooden surfaces such as, for example, spinning distaffs or chests, and employed geometrical figures as well as images of plants.

were: Clotho (/ˈkloʊθoʊ/, Greek Κλωθώ, [klɔːtʰɔ̌ː], "spinner") spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle.

The Roman equivalent of the Greek Clotho, she spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle.

relief from Trier shows three mother goddesses, with two of them holding distaffs.

Witches were often believed to fly on broomsticks or distaffs, or occasionally upon unwilling human beings, who would be called "hag-ridden".

In the kingdom, he disguised himself and offered to give golden distaffs and silver spindles to the nurses and governesses of the young princes.

In Norse mythology, the goddess Frigg spins clouds from her bejewelled distaff in the Norse constellation known as Frigg"s Spinning Wheel (Friggerock.

Synonyms:

domain, area, field, orbit, sphere, arena,

Antonyms:

nadir, antapex, masculine,