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	The Distaff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As in my first distaff made using a shave bench, the most challenging part of this phase, was finding the high and low spots along the distaff by sighting down the edge of the wood.
		The distaff in the Dou paintings is a bowl shaped “cage” that holds the roving, or unspun wool.
		Illustrations in the 14th century Holkham Bible show distaffs being held either at the belt or in the crook of the knee, and in the latter case, the upper end of the distaff has a carved knob.
	www.dragonslaire.org /Articles/distaff1.htm (4236 words)

	Distaff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term distaff is also used as an adjective and is used as a descriptor for a female grouping (e.g., the "distaff side" of a person's family refer's to the person's mother and her blood relatives).
		This term developed in the English speaking communities where a distaff spinning tool was used often to symbolize domestic life.
		The term distaff has fallen largely into disuse in recent times, although its antonyms of sword and spear to describe a male grouping is even more obscure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Distaff (284 words)

	Kingdom of Ealdormere: Distaff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		These distaffs were often carved by shepherds distaff their lonely vigil of watching the sheep.
		Long distaffs are considered to be anything over three feet, this would include the Russian batt and free-standing distaffs used for spinning wheels.
		For instance, the French distaff would be appropriate for flax or long wools, the Peruvian hand-held distaff is appropriate for short fibers such as llama, whereas the Chinese fork distaff Is appropriate for spinning silk roving.
	www.ealdormere.sca.org /university/distaff.shtml (1330 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A "distaff" is also "linfäste" in standard Swedish and "linbräde," "rockbräde," "flagabrä" or "flagabräde" in the Swedish spoken in Finland or "rukinlapa" in Finnish.
		The distaff was not among my grandmother's belongings, brought when she immigrated to the United States in 1905.
		The distaff had not been carved for her, because the initials were wrong; and, "1855" was problematic -- Greta was born in 1845.
	finnishheritagemuseum.org /news/distaffs (1819 words)

	Distaff day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Distaff Day, also called Roc Day, is 7 January, the day after the feast of the Epiphany.
		The distaff, used in spinning, was the mediaeval symbol of women's work.
		Some modern women's craft groups have taken up the celebration of Distaff day as part of their new year celebrations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Distaff_day (97 words)

	Traditional Aesthetics of Erinna's Distaff
		Almost since the discovery of its fragments in 1929 Erinna's Distaff has been recognized as a lament: the "Erinna" of the poem laments for Baukis, who died on her wedding night.
		I suggest, instead, that the dialect corresponds to the genre of the poem: both the themes and the language define the Distaff in terms of a poetic tradition to which it belongs.
		The Distaff is not only a lament but a hymenaios, and many of its "feminine" elements are especially suitable for this genre.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/04mtg/abstracts/levaniouk.html (339 words)

	distaff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I made a choice, based on the logical assumption, that if a distaff was used to hold wool, it would eventually develop a natural patina from the lanolin.
		Observing the included illustrations of distaffs, it appears that the ends were rounded, and that any carving or “cage” would have to have been located several inches from one end.
		A distaff is defined as a stick or staff upon which a bundle of the fiber to be spun was loosely bound, and it was either held in the left hand or stuck in the belt.
	www.dragonslaire.org /Articles/distaff.htm (2004 words)

	Daily Racing Form - Breeders' Cup Distaff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Azeri, whose victory in last year's Distaff clinched for her the 2002 Horse of the Year title, also was pre-entered in the $4 million Classic, but the Distaff is her first choice.
		She will be one of the leading contenders in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff, which is expected to have a field deep on talent, though short on numbers, when the World Thoroughbred Championships are held at Santa Anita on Oct. 25.
		Azeri, whose victory in last year's Distaff clinched the 2002 Horse of the Year title, is scheduled to work on Saturday for the first time since her 11-race win streak ended in the Lady's Secret Breeders' Cup Handicap two weeks ago.
	www.drf.com /bc/2002/distaff/distaff.html (4005 words)

	Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions: Distaff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A person who spins needs two things, in addition to time: the raw material (wool, flax, cotton) that is to be spun, and a spindle or wheel with which to spin it.
		A distaff is a wooden board, sometimes plain but often intricately carved, to which the raw material is tied, and from which the spinner draws as she spins.
		Other types of distaffs are attached to stools on which the spinsters sit, or to the spinning wheels themselves.
	www.smith.edu /hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/distaff2.html (143 words)

	Distaff Preview: Youth Brigade - bloodhorse.com
		The pace scenario for this year's Distaff took a twist with the retirement of 1999 champion older filly Beautiful Pleasure following her uncharacteristic sixth-place finish in the Beldame.
		Canani's tactics of asking Tranquility Lake to make her move on the turn, forcing rivals to play a deadly game of "catch me if you can," could be even more effective on dirt.
		The Spinster, the springboard for eight Distaff winners, was won by 21-1 Miss Linda, an Argentine-bred.
	www.bloodhorse.com /viewstory.asp?id=6421 (634 words)

	Constantine XI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Constantine was born in Constantinople as the eighth of ten children of Manuel II Palaiologos and Helena Dragaš, the daughter of the Serbian prince Constantine Dragaš of Kumanovo.
		In a variant of the Byzantine practice of adopting the distaff surname where it connoted more prestige, Constantine liked to be known by his mother's name of Dragaš (Serbian: Драгаш) or Dragasēs, which she inherited from her Serbian father.
		He spent most of his childhood in Constantinople under the supervision of his parents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constantine_XI (619 words)

	Thoroughbred Times: Breeders' Cup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the Distaff, Unbridled Elaine delivered a powerful closing kick under jockey Pat Day to win by a head over Spain, who was trying to become the second filly to repeat.
		The Distaff was the first race on the Breeders’ Cup program, and it got the World Thoroughbred Championships day off to an almost disastrous start, though both the race and the day ended with remarkable finishes.
		While Unbridled Elaine’s credentials may have been underappreciated before the Distaff (she went off at 12.30-to-1, the sixth choice in the 11-horse field), they were actually quite good.
	www.thoroughbredtimes.com /breeders_cup/display_races.asp?race=di (1629 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		A distaff is 'a staff with a cleft end for holding wool, flax, etc., from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand'.
		Eventually distaff came to be used figuratively for the female sex, and the female branch of a family came to be known as the distaff side (as we might say "on my mother's side").
		The adjectival use of distaff as a synonym for 'female' became very common in the middle of the 20th century, as evidenced in the print media in expressions such as "the distaff tradition in English fiction" or "the distaff Ivy League colleges" or "the distaff side of the proceedings."
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19991012 (492 words)

	January 7th
		The duty seems to have been considered a dubious one, and when it was complied with, the ploughmen, who on their part scarcely felt called upon on this day to resume work, made it their sport to set the flax a-burning; in requital of which prank, the maids soused the men from the water-pails.
		The distaff and spindle must, of course, have been coeval with the first efforts of our race to frame textures for the covering of their persons.
		The change from the distaff and spindle to the spinning-wheel appears to have been almost coincident with an alteration in, or modification of, our legal phraseology, and to have abrogated the use of the word spinster when applied to single women of a certain rank.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/jan/7.htm (4415 words)

	Distaff Diary
		Conditioned by Allen Jerkins, the new divisional leader has won graded stakes events ranging from seven furlongs to 1 1/4 miles and will be tough in whatever spot she appears in next.
		We are expecting an excellent performance from the dark bay in her next start, and she still ranks near the top of the Distaff list.
		The well-deserving winner of the Pimlico Breeders' Cup Distaff, SILMARIL (Diamond), brushed with one of her rivals and still defeated a champion by three-quarters of a length.
	www.brisnet.com /cgi-bin/editorial/news/article.cgi?id=1537 (429 words)

	ESPN.com - HORSE/BREEDERSCUP00 - Distaff: Spain lights up tote board with upset
		Last year's Distaff champ Beautiful Pleasure finished sixth while Riboletta was a non-factor in seventh.
		The previous biggest payoff in Distaff history was $96.20 by One Dreamer in 1994.
		This year's Breeders Cup Championship drew a record 135 entrants and every race was over-subscribed with the exception of the Distaff, which is another testament to Riboletta's strong 2000 performance.
	espn.go.com /horse/breederscup00/s/2000/1018/825652.html (435 words)

	SRF BB Coverage -- Distaff
		Older Fillies - ONE ATTACK: It is of the SRF's opinion, that DISTAFF Queen ONE ATTACK should be a worthy Champion in her division.
		She proved in the BB DISTAFF, that she's not only a very good Turf horse but she can run on the dirt as well.
		It was a race made for her, Jockey W Jenkins hold her off the pace - let the others do the leading job - then at the right moment he gave her just a short sign with the wipes and she starts her attack - the big attack.
	pages.prodigy.net /snowchief/SRFbbdis.htm (477 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| January 7 \| St Distaff, Goddess Sekhmet, distaff, saint, ...
		Today was named by some medieval English comedian after an imagined saint, Distaff, and honours the distaff, a sort of yarn spinning device.
		The women having gone back to the distaff, or rock, the men would play the prank of setting the flax on fire; in retaliation the women would drench the men from their water pails.
		distaff side were legal terms for male and female children with regard to inheritance.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/jan7.html (3377 words)

	Horse Racing News from the NTRA
		That race was over the same and track and distance as this year’s Distaff, and she may have been too close to the early pace that day to be most effective.
		She enters the Distaff one of the hottest fillies or mares in the nation, winning three straight and four of her last five.
		In a Distaff loaded with front-end speed horses, Pleasant Home will be one of the few doing her best running in the final eighth of a mile.
	www.ntra.com /bc_division_pages.aspx?id=15079 (4329 words)

	Distaff Preview, Oct. 9 - bloodhorse.com
		Neither one was good enough for Princess Rooney weeks later at Hollywood Park in the Distaff, but there doesn't appear to be any Princess Rooneys among this year's distaff set.
		Her absence in the Distaff changes the entire pace scenario for the race.
		The biggest bright spot among the older fillies in the race was the strong effort by Spain, last year's Distaff winner.
	www.bloodhorse.com /viewstory.asp?id=6263 (698 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ashado: filly worth watching in Breeders' Cup Distaff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ashado is a star in her own right, a champion filly preparing to close a Hall of Fame career in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff.
		In her final race before being retired, the 4-year-old Ashado has a chance to become the leading money-earner among fillies and mares (Azeri is No. 1) and only the second horse to repeat in the Distaff (Bayakoa did it in 1989-90).
		In what looks like a full field of 14 for the 1 1/8-mile Distaff, Ashado will take on her toughest rivals, including Society Selection and Stellar Jayne — two fillies she defeated in last year's Distaff.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/horses/breeders/2005-10-23-ashado_x.htm (897 words)

	DISTAFF: Discussion, Interpretation & Study of Textile Arts, Fabric & Fashion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, and Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics, and Fashion) was founded in 1997 by Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Robin Netherton to bring together participants at the major medieval congresses who are interested in medieval dress and textiles.
		DISTAFF sponsors sessions and exhibitions on dress and textiles at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May, and at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds, England, in July.
		We are in the process of updating our website to contain information about upcoming Distaff conferences and events.
	www.distaff.org (100 words)

	Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages, Chapter One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		That Uxor sits on her distaff, her rok, could mean that it was attached to a bench or stool which could also contain a reel to take up the finished yarn.
		142, where Mary's distaff is emplanted in a flat base that is either placed on or is attached to the bench on which she sits while the spun thread shows clearly as it reaches across her body to her right hand from which the spindle drops.
		For the distaff was emblematic in both Continental and English traditions of the punishment of Eve after the Fall and therefore of the postlapsarian human condition." He states, p.
	www.umilta.net /equal1.html (10350 words)

	January 7 - St. Distaff's Day
		The day after Twelfth-day was so called because it was celebrated in honour of the rock, which is a distaff held in the hand, from whence wool is spun by twirling a ball below.
		It seems that the burning of the flax and tow belonging to the woman, was the men's diversion in the evening of the first day of labour after the twelve days of Christmas, and that the women repaid the interruption to their industry by sluicing the mischief-makers.
		The day after Epiphany or Twelfth day was called St. Distaff’s day by country people, because, the Christmas holidays have ended, good housewives resumed the distaff and their other industrious employments.
	www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com /Text/Hone/january_7_st_distaffs_day.htm (175 words)

	DRF: Boss' Sweet Symphony set for Distaff - Breeders' Cup - MSNBC.com
		A victory in the Distaff could propel Sweet Symphony to an Eclipse Award in the 3-year-old filly division.
		Bailey is also the regular rider of Stellar Jayne, who won the Grade 1 Ruffian in her last start and is a three-time Grade 1 winner over Belmont's main track.
		Capeside Lady, beaten two lengths when third in the Spinster, would be making the last start of her career in the Distaff.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9698268 (589 words)

	Proverbs 31:19 She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands
		She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
		She layeth her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle.
		She putteth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
	bible.cc /proverbs/31-19.htm (192 words)

	Breeders' Cup 2004 - Distaff - Latest News - Daily Racing Form (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A Dallas native, Pletcher won his first Breeders' Cup race in the first Breeders' Cup race run in the state of Texas when his filly Ashado captured the $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff on Saturday at Lone Star Park.
		The victory was great satisfaction for Pletcher, who had Ashado tune up for the Distaff in the Cotillion Handicap at Philadelphia Park.
		He chose that race, rather than a more prestigious race at his home track of Belmont Park, because it fell four weeks before the Distaff, the spacing Pletcher desired.
	www.drf.com /bc/2004/distaff/distaff.html (711 words)

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