DISTAFF.See Spinning and Weaving.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
dis?taf (פלך, pelekh): This word occurs once in Pro_31:19; ?spindle? is found in the same passage. In the Revised Version (British and American) the meanings of the two words have been exchanged. See SPINNING.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Distaff
(פֶּלֶךְ, prop. a circle, e.g. a district or quarter of a city, part," Neh_3:9-18; hence the whirl of a spindle, with which, it is put in parallelism, Pro_31:19; once a "staff," or crutch, 2Sa_3:29), the instrument used for twisting the thread in spinning by its twirl. SEE SPINDLE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.