staves

Meaning of staves

noun
  1. (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
  2. (plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
  3. (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.
    The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.
  4. A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.W
  5. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
    a constable's staff
  6. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
  7. The rung of a ladder.
  8. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
  9. An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
  10. The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
  11. An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
noun
  1. One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
  2. One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
  3. A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
  4. The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
  5. A staff or walking stick.
  6. A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
verb
  1. To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
  2. (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
    to stave in a cask
  3. (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
  4. (usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
    We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.
  5. (rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
  6. To walk or move rapidly.
  7. To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
  8. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
    to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run

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Hyphenation of staves

staves

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • staves is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

staves synonyms

Meaning :

personnel, stave

Anagrams of staves

Vestas, vestas

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