These are the meanings of the letters PACKSTAFF when you unscramble them.
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Stack (a.)
A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.
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Stack (a.)
A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
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Stack (a.)
A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
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Stack (a.)
A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:
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Stack (a.)
Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.
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Stack (a.)
A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
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Stack (a.)
A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.
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Stack (n.)
To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.
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Staff (n.)
A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
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Staff (n.)
A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
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Staff (n.)
A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
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Staff (n.)
A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
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Staff (n.)
The round of a ladder.
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Staff (n.)
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
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Staff (n.)
The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
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Staff (n.)
An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
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Staff (n.)
The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
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Staff (n.)
An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
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Staff (n.)
Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.