staff

1. staff (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.

Example: And thus ſhall ye eate it [the lamb]: with your loines girded, your ſhooes on your feet, and your ſtaffe in your hand: and ye ſhall eate it in haſte: it is the Lords Paſſeouer.

2. staff (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.

3. staff (noun) — sense 3

Definition: People employed by a business or other organisation.

Example: The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.

4. staff (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.

Example: Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.