Definitions for staves

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staves staves

Spelling: [steyvz]

IPA: /steɪvz/

Staves is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in staves (aesstv).

Definitions for staves

noun

1. a plural of staff1 .
2. plural of stave.
3. a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
4. a group of assistants to a manager, superintendent, or executive.
5. a member of a staff.
6. Military. a body of officers without command authority, appointed to assist a commanding officer. the parts of any army concerned with administrative matters, planning, etc., rather than with actual participation in combat.
7. those members of an organization serving only in an auxiliary or advisory capacity on a given project. Compare line1 (def 38).
8. a stick, pole, or rod for aid in walking or climbing, for use as a weapon, etc.
9. a rod or wand serving as a symbol of office or authority, as a crozier, baton, truncheon, or mace.
10. a pole on which a flag is hung or displayed.
11. something that supports or sustains.
12. Also, stave. Music. a set of horizontal lines, now five in number, with the corresponding four spaces between them, on which music is written.
13. Archaic. the shaft of a spear, lance, etc.
14. one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
15. a stick, rod, pole, or the like.
16. a rung of a ladder, chair, etc.
17. Prosody. a verse or stanza of a poem or song. the alliterating sound in a line of verse, as the w- sound in wind in the willows.
18. Music. staff1 (def 10).
19. a composition of plaster and fibrous material used for a temporary finish and in ornamental work, as on exposition buildings.

adjective

1. of or relating to a military or organizational staff:
2. (of a professional person) employed on the staff of a corporation, publication, institution, or the like rather than being self-employed or practicing privately:

Verb phrases

1. stave off, to put, ward, or keep off, as by force or evasion. to prevent in time; forestall:

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a staff of assistants or workers:
2. to serve on the staff of.
3. to send to a staff for study or further work (often followed by out):
4. to break in a stave or staves of (a cask or barrel) so as to release the wine, liquor, or other contents.
5. to release (wine, liquor, etc.) by breaking the cask or barrel.
6. to break or crush (something) inward (often followed by in).
7. to break (a hole) in, especially in the hull of a boat.
8. to break to pieces; splinter; smash.
9. to furnish with a stave or staves.
10. to beat with a stave or staff.

verb (used without object)

1. to hire employees, as for a new office or project (sometimes followed by up):
2. to become staved in, as a boat; break in or up.
3. to move along rapidly.

Origin of staves

before 900; Middle English staf (noun), Old English stæf; cognate with Dutch staf, German Stab, Old Norse stafr staff, Sanskrit stabh- support

Examples for staves

At this, half a score reached him their staves, and he took the stoutest and heaviest of them all.

With brooms and staves they ran to meet it far from their dwellings, beating it with fury.

There was a sound of rude voices, and a clashing of swords and staves.

The only tools they used were staves, which they made before starting.

These were in metal, and were raised at the ends of spears or staves.

The staves accordingly are seen flying through the air in all directions.

It is clear to you that she intends to use the staves as oars.

I had the manager on board and three or four pilgrims with their staves—all complete.

Another common trick is to flavor inexpensive wines with oak chips or staves.

In Italy he decides that fascism is in fact “a sort of boy scout regime; but instead of staves it carries revolvers.”