- Shepherd’s staff - A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. - Any implement having a bent or crooked end. - The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to
hold a runaway sheep. - A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff. - A pothook. - An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
- A bishop’s hooked staff - Bishop's hooked staff - The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop,
being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.