Staff, Stave

Several different kinds of staves are borne in coats of armour, as follow:

Papal staff

Papal Staff or pope’s cross staff, sometimes called a treble cross staff and also the universal bishop’s treble cross, but more properly blazoned a staff pommelled and fitched, the top being treble crossed paté bottoné, and by some, a treble cross, the second and third crossed paté bottoné.

A bishop's cross staff

The cardinal and patriarchal cross staves have a double cross paté, the first single, the other crossed; and the bishop has but a single cross on his staff, as borne in the Arms of the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury.

Crosier between 2 palmers' staves

The crozier is a staff of gold, metal, wood or ivory with a curved head or crook, being part of the insignia of a bishop or abbot. See Crozier

A palmer's staff bearing a scrip

Palmer’s staff, pilgrim’s staff  or rector’s staff.

Staff raguly, couped at each end

Staff raguly, in bend sinister, couped in chief and erased in base

Staff cross, a rule used by plumbers and borne as part of their armorial ensigns. See Forestaff

See also Staff (Fissure), the diminutive of the bend sinister