staves

[ steyvz ]

/ steɪvz /

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noun

a plural of staff¹.

plural of stave.

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Words nearby staves

stauroplegia, stauroscope, Stavanger, stave, stave off, staves, stavesacre, Stavropol, stavudine, staw, stay

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The book is broken into what Dickens calls staves, not chapters.
How Dickens and Scrooge Saved Christmas|Clive Irving|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The mother unties the palm staves from the mattress, then takes the nylon ropes and ties the mattress to the boat.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq|Nathan Bradley Bethea|August 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is clear to you that she intends to use the staves as oars.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq|Nathan Bradley Bethea|August 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In Italy he decides that fascism is in fact “a sort of boy scout regime; but instead of staves it carries revolvers.”
The Grand Tour in Style: Robert Byron’s ‘Europe in the Looking-Glass’|Malcolm Forbes|November 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Another common trick is to flavor inexpensive wines with oak chips or staves.
The Great Wine Cover-up|Keith Wallace|August 18, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Regular pitched battles were fought with sticks and staves and stones.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
Near the stream we found some felled trees and the staves of a cask.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
The ribbon was supported at proper distances by white staves, similar to those of the court ushers.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808|Lt-Col. Pinkney
The fact is, that a week ago he had ordered a lot of constables' staves and four sets of handcuffs.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend|Charles Reade
Then came the pitch-pine staves of a rice-cask; then a bedstead, a broken chair, a wooden flowerpot!
The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin.

British Dictionary definitions for staves

staves

/ (steɪvz) /

noun

a plural of staff 1, stave

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