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Flax is a type of plant that can be spun into linen and a distaff is a tool used to hold unspun fibers. This phrase is usually used in reference to someone's hair and means that their hair is blonde and tousled, resembling the unspun fibers coiled around the top of a distaff.
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What is an antonym for distaff?
If you mean 'distaff,' in terms of 'the female side of a family,' the Heraldic counterpart would be 'spear-side.'
What does flax wench mean?
Flax-wench was an insult. Technically it was a woman who spun flax, but it was also another term for "prostitute."
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Why does Beowulf hangs?
you mean hangs grendels hand if so than because to show that he can kill Grendel you mean hangs grendels hand if so than because to show that he can kill Grendel
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it mean
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harakeke is Maori for flax
Does it mean a boy likes you if he stares at you a lot and hangs out with you and makes you laugh and talks to you a lot?
Sounds like he likes you a lot.
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it means she hung up the phone on you because she doesn't want to talk
What does jonar mean?
A jonar is someone who hangs out by themselves.
How do girls know when guys like them?
when the boy is either tooo mean or too nice when he hangs out and makes jokes when he flirts and says he works out
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If you mean money then you can do many things like spin flax, make leather, kill creatures that drop good items and other things like farming.
