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Definition of Staphs
1. staph [n] - See also: staph
Lexicographical Neighbors of Staphs
Literary usage of Staphs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork: Containing a by Charles Smith (1815)
"Middleburgh is the staphs of French wines. Dort, for Rhenish wines ; and (he
English warehouses for broad cloth, arc also kept there. V'ere, in Zeeland, ..."
2. The Irish Jurist (1858)
"... QC), with him Sir T. staphs, QC, for the crown, cited 6 ¡5: 7 Win. IV., c.
86, sees. 38 and 48 ; 7 & 8 Viet, c. ..."
3. The woodlands by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1879)
"At the least intimation of danger, up goes the tail portion, and by this, as well
as the naked extremities, the " staphs" may be known from others of the ..."
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