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	DISTAFF DAY : Encyclopedia Entry
		Distaff Day, also called Roc Day, is 7 January, the day after the feast of the Epiphany.
		The distaff, or rock, used in spinning was the medieval symbol of women's work.
		Often the men and women would play pranks on each other during this day, as was written by Robert Herrick in his poem "Saint Distaffs day, or the Morrow After Twelfth Day" which appears in his Hesperides.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Distaff_day (120 words)

	Distaff - LoveToKnow 1911
		DISTAFF, in the early forms of spinning, the "rock" or short stick round one end of which the flax, cotton or wool is loosely wound, and from which it is spun off by the spindle.
		the use of "spinster" for an unmarried woman); thus the "distaff" or "spindle" side of a family refers to the female branch, as opposed to the "spear" or male branch.
		The 7th of January, the day after Epiphany, was formerly known as St Distaff's day, as women then began work again after the Christmas holiday.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Distaff (157 words)

	Distaff's Day - January 7, 2007 - Red Letter Day from The Old Farmer's Almanac
		The day after Epiphany (January 6) was traditionally the one on which women went back to work after the 12-day Christmas celebration.
		A distaff is the wooden rod (staff) that holds the flax or wool on a spinning wheel.
		The term "red-letter day" originates with the tradition of marking holy days in a church calendar in red.
	www.almanac.com /redletterday/2007-01-7 (281 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 lady carried her distaff in her gemmed girdle, and her spindle in her hand, when she went to spend half a day with a neighbouring friend.
		The scarcity in those days of fodder, especially when frost lasted long, he reveals to us by his direction that all trees should be pruned of their superfluous boughs, that the cattle might browse upon them.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/jan/7.htm (4415 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)

	Definition of Distaff from dictionary.net
		The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
		Descent by distaff, descent on the mother's side.
		Distaff Day, or Distaff's Day, the morrow of the Epiphany, that is, January 7, because working at the distaff was then resumed, after the Christmas festival; -- called also Rock Day, a distaff being called a rock.
	www.dictionary.net /distaff (149 words)

	Medieval Women - Scriptorium: Distaff Gospels
		Lady Mehault Caillotte got up and said that it is true; indeed her washing is still in the laundry vat, and she dares not wash it because her cat does not stop licking her behind.
		When a woman sleeps with her husband and wants to have a boy rather than a girl, she must hold her hands closed while her husband has intercourse with her, and to tell the truth, she will have a son.
		Some experienced midwives maintain that for having a son, one should have intercourse by day in the morning, and a daughter by night in the evening.
	mw.mcmaster.ca /scriptorium/distaff.html (2242 words)

	Saint Distaff's Day
		The day, which was also know as Rock Day (referring to another name for either the distaff or the spindle) indicated that this was the end of the Christmas festivities and the return to the normality of spinning whenever there was a spare moment.
		The distaff was carried under the arm, and the spindle left dangling and turning in the fingers below, and forming an axis round which to wind parcels of the thread as soon as it was made.
		In his Law Dictionary, Blount, wrote: 'It is the addition usually given to all unmarried women, from the Viscount's daughter downward.' Similarly the distaff side and the spear side were once legal terms to distinguish the inheritance of female from that of male children-and the distaff became a synonym for woman herself.
	www.tellinghistory.co.uk /resources/distaff.htm (1230 words)

	Facts about January- Customs and Traditions including New Years Day
		This was the day on which women had to return to work with the distaff (another name for a spindle) after the Christmas holiday.
		The day on which work started again after Twelfth Night was known to countryfolk as Plough Monday: the day on which labourers had to return to the fields.
		The day was also nicknamed St Distaff's Day: the day on which women had to return to work with the distaff (another name for a spindle) after the Christmas holiday.
	www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /customs/year/january.htm (1436 words)

	Pegan Days
		Twelfth night is the day by which the debris of the yule feast must be cleared away.
		This is the day of Juturna, the divinity of fountains and prophetic waters.
		The day is sacred to frigg, the wofe of Odin and the goddess of the sky, who is said to know the future of human-kind.
	www.ffni.com /~doc/pagandays/jan.html (486 words)

	Distaff - definition from Biology-Online.org
		The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
		Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively.
		distaff day, or Distaff's day, the morrow of the epiphany, that is, January 7, because working at the distaff was then resumed, after the christmas festival; called also rock day, a distaff being called a rock.
	www.biology-online.org /dictionary/Distaff (211 words)

	About Us
		An enjoyable day at the Smithsonian museum, an evening at the Kennedy Center, or just dining in Georgetown are just a few of the many treasures one can appreciate in the nation’s capital.
		The Army Distaff Foundation is committed to carrying out this tradition of caring for military officers, their spouses and female relatives.
		Regular and reserve component male and female military officers of all uniform services, their spouses, sisters, daughters, mothers and mothers-in-law are eligible for residency at Knollwood regardless of race, religion, age, sex, handicap or disability.
	www.armydistaff.org /about.html (563 words)

	A.Word.A.Day -- bedizen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Today's word and the word distaff share the same origin, dis- (a bunch of flax).
		A distaff is a staff with a cleft for holding wool, flax, etc. from which thread is drawn while being spun by hand.
		Distaff side (also spindle side) refers to the female side of a family.
	www.wordsmith.org /words/bedizen.html (262 words)

	Daily Racing Form - Breeders' Cup Distaff
		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)

	Ottawa Valley Weaver's and Spinner's Guild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A gathering for fun and friendship and an opportunity for members to show off the creations made during the St. Distaff’s Day event on May 26th and to submit yarns, prepared warps, scarf blanks or other fabric that they have prepared for dyeing at the June Indigo Workshop.
		St. Distaff's Day was started in June 2002 by the The West Carleton Fibre Guild and the Kintail Spinners and Weavers.
		Distaff's Day is always a fun-filled day packed with lots of activity for all those interested in the textile world, spinners and weavers, from novice to professional, from teacher to student, from buyer to supplier.
	www.ovwsg.com /calendar (437 words)

	Manners, Customs, and Observances: Their Origin and Significance: Secular Observances
		In the days when all England was Roman Catholic, they made a judicious compromise between levity and hard work by attending the parish church in a body, and there offering lighted candles before the high altar by way of calling down a blessing on the labours of the year.
		Those who claimed the freedom of the town on this day were conducted in solemn procession on horseback, dressed in white, and with swords hanging by their sides, by the bailiff to what was called the Freemen's Well, a large dirty pool on the borders of the common.
		One day, while walking in Shotover Forest, absorbed in the study of his Aristotle, a young collegian was suddenly made aware of the presence of a wild boar, in consequence of the animal making a rush at him openmouthed.
	www.sacred-texts.com /etc/mco/ml13.htm (12449 words)

	The Distaff Side
		he Distaff Side" is a term commonly used to designate the female side of the family or the matrilineal line.
		his page explores the life of the distaff side of families from each of three classes: the lower class (serfs, servants, and peasants), the middle class (town dwellers, burghers, and tradespeople), and the upper class (gentry, nobility, and royalty).
		Upper- and middle-class babies were baptized at the church on the day of their birth, as death without baptism would send the little soul into Limbo.
	library.thinkquest.org /12834/text/distaffside.html (1516 words)

	Calculating Medieval Time
		Twelfth Day often coincided with St Distaff's Day, which was the traditional day on which women returned to their spinning.
		On this day girls sometimes fasted all day and then at night would eat a salt-filled, hard-boiled egg (including the shell!) so that she would dream of her lover at night (if maidens didn't fancy the salty and shelled egg, they could replace it with a raw red herring).
		Midsummer's Day was marked by festivals (often drunken) in the fields and in the towns.
	www.saradouglass.com /medtime.html (3046 words)

	January (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Typically, this was the day when the women would return to the household work, primarily of weaving the spun yarn, once the cleaning of the house after Yule was complete.
		A distaff is a spinning tool used to make yarn which is then used to weave into cloth on a loom.
		It is a day of remembrance and honoring the females that passed over and to thank them for their loving protection.
	www.earth-dancing.com /january2254.htm (556 words)

	Dance Smartly (Cont.) \| bloodhorse.com
		With six weeks before the Distaff, Day put Dance Smartly away for three weeks of "quiet time" before charging her back up for the Breeders' Cup.
		Day had time to give Dance Smartly a single, strong six-furlong workout and was relieved when she blew away a workmate and finished with verve.
		Under perfect handling from Day, she sat a glorious trip behind the front runners before launching a three-wide bid two furlongs from the wire.
	news.bloodhorse.com /viewstory.asp?id=17304 (807 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The day after Twelfth Night was called distaff's day": that was the day on which women resumed their spinning and ordinary household tasks after the Christmas holidays.
		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)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Dis’taff. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Properly the staff from which the flax was drawn in spinning.
		So called because the Christmas festival terminated on Twelfth Day, and on the day following the women returned to their distaffs or daily occupations.
		It is also called Rock Day, a distaff being called a rock.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/5059.html (143 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 (4332 words)

	Roc Day: A Spinner's Tradition and Warp and Weft: The Life of the Tusing Sisters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Distaffs Day is January 7, the day after the Epiphany, a church festival celebrated in commemoration of the visit of the Wise Men of the East to Bethlehem.
		As this marked the end of the Christmas Festival, work with the distaff was commenced, hence the name, St. Distaffs Day.
		"Rocking Day" was a feasting day when friends and neighbors met together in the early days of the New Year to celebrate the end of the Christmastide Festival.
	www.heritagecenter.com /Events/rocday.htm (260 words)

	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		1 definition found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Distaff \Dis"taff\, n.; pl. Distaffs, rarely Distaves.
		[1913 Webster] His crown usurped, a distaff on the throne.
		[1913 Webster] Descent by distaff, descent on the mother's side.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=Distaff (170 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Dis’taff.
		Properly the staff from which the flax was drawn in spinning.
		So called because the Christmas festival terminated on Twelfth Day, and on the day following the women returned to their distaffs or daily occupations.
		It is also called Rock Day, a distaff being called a rock.
	www.bartleby.com /81/5059.html (143 words)

	St. Distaff's Day At ThreadBear Means New Fiber and Demos - ThreadBear Fiber Arts Studio
		January 7 is historically observed as St. Distaff's Day.
		No, there is no St. Distaff, but as the first day after the much-sung-about twelve days of Christmas, January 7 was—quite literally—the day to get back to your spinning.
		We'll be observing St. Distaff's Day at ThreadBear with a day of spinning demonstration, good cheer, and other assorted ThreadBear fun stuff.
	www.threadbearfiberarts.com /article/061221stdistaff.php (150 words)

	FJCPDC Legal Holidays
		On a bitterly cold day in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1776, General George Washington raised the new Continental flag with thirteen stripes before his headquarters and announced that the new army was now "entirely continental." Washington had done so in an effort to inspire the soldiers in his Continental Army whose enlistments were about to expire.
		On this day in 1861, Confederate spy, Belle Boyd, one of the most celebrated southern women of the Civil War and known as La Belle Rebelle, shot and killed a marauding Union soldier near her home near what is now Martinsburg, West Virginia.
		In 1863, United States President, Abraham Lincoln, had asked that this day be set aside as a day for national thanksgiving, praise, and prayer, to invoke the influence of the Holy Spirit to subdue the anger which has produced and so long sustained a needless and cruel rebellion.
	www.publicdefender.com /FJCPDCLegalHolidays.html (14327 words)

	The Every Day Book - William Hone
		Without noticing every saint to whom each day is dedicated in the Roman catholic calendar, the names of saints will be given day by day, as they stand under each day in the last edition of their “Lives,” by the Rev. Alban Butler, in 12 vols.
		Advent, being the closest Sunday to the feast day of St. Andrew, November 30.
		Corpus Christi Day and the Performance of Mysteries (June 2), an extensive discussion of the mystery plays.
	www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com /Text/Hone/every_day_book.htm (904 words)

	Phases (dot) Org : Calendar of Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Whether you choose to create a feast, light a candle or simply hold in your mind the essence of days such as these gone by, we hope that these dates enright your lives.
		Patron saint of flsmiths and metalworkers, clements is an aspect of the godling Wayland, the Smith On this day, Old Clement is said to stand above the tavern doors.
		- Acca Larentis, the day sacred to Laurentina, the mother of the Lares, Goddess of the dead and sweet corn.
	www.phases.org /index.cfm?doc=detail&id_content=55 (3141 words)

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