Arms and Staves

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Arms noun - Weapons considered collectively.

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Staves and arms are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Staves" instead a noun "Arms".

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Arms and staves are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Arms" instead a noun "Staves".

He can use his mystifying ability to move items, like he would if he had arms, using visible staves (complete with notations) and also to help illustrate his points as seen a few times.

Source: Disney / Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
The Fire Emblem games use this for weapon proficiency gains, in that by attacking with a certain weapon/magic (or healing with staves) enough times will allow the character to use the next relevant level of arms.

Source: Stat Grinding
Lampshaded with Kate Bishop - The rest of the Young Avengers jokingly call her "Hawkingbird" after she arms herself with Hawkeye's bow & Mockingbird's battle staves, and also wears Mockingbird's mask.

Source: Comic Book / Young Avengers

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