As with most things of pastoral origin, our modern life is taking us away from familiarity with their use.
The Shepherds Rod was a stick shaped like a club with a smooth round head (the modern analogy would be a scepter) it was used a a weapon to defend the flock from predators, to throw at sheep that were going towards danger, and to examine sheep as they came in at night (to part the fleece to look for parasites)
The Shepherds Staff (or Crook) was a tall pole with a curved hook on one end that the shepherd would use the pole as a walking stick and extend the straight end to guide and drive sheep when needed and the hook to catch the neck of a sheep and bring it towards him.
They were the ubiquitous tools of the shepherd and this shepherding metaphor is used extensively in The Bible and now as symbols of care and authority.
a knock out rod is the rod that will knockout you when you use it
Support staff supports official members of staff.
Its a kind of note in music. Its also in the G-scale of g sharp it is on the grand staff on piano.
Rod & Todd
Rod Arrants is 6' 5".
Staff can refer to people who run a facility, or to a rod to help walking or controlling animals.
He had a staff.
protection
Virgula is a small rod, staff, or stick. The word is used figuratively of various written marks, including the comma.
Legendary scion's rod
Staff can refer to people who run a facility, or to a rod to help walking or controlling animals.
In Rastafarian culture, a rod or staff, often referred to as a "Rasta staff," symbolizes authority, guidance, and spiritual strength. It is typically used by leaders or elders within the community and represents their role in providing wisdom and leadership. The staff can also serve as a physical reminder of the connection to African heritage and the Rastafarian faith. Overall, it embodies the principles of unity, strength, and faith in the Rastafarian belief system.
The use of the words Rod and Staff are examples of Jewish poetry, the rhyming of ideas, and they mean the same thing just said differently.Psalms 23 is the Shepherd psalm, so the Rod and Staff mentioned here is the main tool of the shepherd.The shepherd had a long wooden pole, often called a staff, with one end bent into large hook.The long straight end or rod was used to defend the sheep from predators and to discipline wayward sheep.The hook end was used to rescue sheep from where ever they had fallen and to pull them to safety."Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me." It was a comfort to David that the Lord used His "tools" as the Good Shepherd to defend, discipline and rescue us as His sheep.
It is a rod or staff, usually with ornamention on the top) that represented authority.
If you steal his wand/rod/staff. That makes him really angry.
stick, club, staff, pole, rod, crook, cane, mace
from Latin Bastum meaning a rod. Adopted into 12th century French as Baston, a stick or staff or rod. There is an old Greek word Bastazein meaning to lift up, raise or carry, as in a staff