STAVES

Definition: STAVES

STAVES

Noun

1. Pl. of Staff.

Plural

1. Pl. of Stave.

2. Of Staff

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "STAVES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Crosswords: STAVES

References

• The World Market for Wood Casks, Barrels, Vats, Tubs, and Other Coopers' Products Including Staves and Other Wooden Parts: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Music, No Staves (reference)

• Standard & Tab Staves (reference)

• Staves for Louisville (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Negro resting on pile of logs to be loaded into box car, Eudora, Arkansas. These logs will be shipped to Tallulah, Louisiana to be made into barrel staves. Credit: Library of Congress.

Loading logs to be made into barrel staves at Tallulah, Louisiana. Loading point, Eudora, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Look that my staves be sound, and not too heavy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Portugal

Tropical hardwood, logs, veneer, pallets, staves, etc. (references)

Spain

Other major uses include the production of wine barrels with oak staves, an industry which is flourishing. (references)

Portugal

Fast growth market niches include wood pallets - $ 898,000 in CY-1999, up from $ 19,000 in CY-1998 - and oak staves for wine casket production - $ 608,000 in CY-1999, up from $ 160,000 in CY-1998. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "STAVES": Hand staves ♦ head staves. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏المساعدون. (various references)

Bulgarian 

петолиния. (various references)

Chinese 

梯级 (stave). (various references)

Danish

trefod til stave (tripod for staves), de to bundstave op ad den midterste (head boards, head staves). (various references)

Dutch

voetstuk voor baken (tripod for staves), kram voor vaatduigen (staple for staves), duigen naast de centrale duig (head boards, head staves). (various references)

Finnish

välilauta (head boards, head staves). (various references)

French

assistants. (various references)

German

Sockel fuer Messlatten (tripod for staves), Schlaufe fuer Fassdauben (staple for staves). (various references)

Greek 

πληθ. του stave, πληθ. του staff. (various references)

Hungarian

vonalrendszer (staff, stave), kotta öt vonala (staff, stave). (various references)

Italian

zoccolo per stadie (tripod for staves), punta cambretta per doghe (staple for staves). (various references)

Pig Latin

avesstay

Portuguese

soco para mira (tripod for staves), segundos (head boards, head staves), chegantes (head boards, head staves). (various references)

Romanian

portativ (portable, portative, stave). (various references)

Russian 

of staff I 5. (various references)

Scottish

eileir (a deer's walk, sequestered region, the notch on the staves of a cask where the bottom is fixed.). (various references)

Spanish

azuelas (head boards, head staves). (various references)

Swedish

bottenstavar (head boards, head staves). (various references)

Turkish

porteler, nota çizgileri. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "STAVES": stavesacre, stavesacres. (additional references)

Words ending with "STAVES": cowlstaves, distaves, flagstaves, pikestaves, quarterstaves, tipstaves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"STAVES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estave, estives, Istavan, Savez, scaves, stades, staive, stava, staver, Stavers, staxes, steave, steeves, stivers, straves, swaves, tavis, tsades, Tsavo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: vestas.

-1 letter: asset, easts, sates, saves, seats, stave, tasse, vases, vasts, vesta, vests.

-2 letters: ates, aves, east, eats, etas, sate, save, seas, seat, seta, sets, tass, tavs, teas, vase, vast, vats, vest, vets.

-3 letters: ass, ate, ave, eat, ess, eta, sae, sat, sea, set, tae, tas, tav, tea, vas, vat, vet.

-4 letters: ae, as, at, es.

+1 letter: avosets, savates, starves, suavest, vastest, vestals.

+2 letters: distaves, harvests, savagest, savviest, servants, solvates, starvers, statives, vastiest, vastness, versants, votaress.

+3 letters: assertive, estivates, festivals, lavishest, loveseats, overcasts, oversalts, overstays, overtasks, passivate, salivates, savoriest, sedatives, stravages, suavities, tipstaves, traverses, travoises, tsarevnas, varsities, vastities, vesicants, vesicates, vitalises.

+4 letters: activeness, advertises, aestivates, arrivistes, assaultive, asseverate, assumptive, causatives, cowlstaves, devastates, flagstaves, gravitases, harvesters, invertases, nativeness, observants, overassert, overstaffs, overstates, passivated, passivates, pikestaves, privatises, savouriest, shavetails, shortwaves, sovranties, stavesacre, sylvanites, timesavers, tovarishes, transverse, traversals, traversers, travesties, vacantness, vasotomies, vastitudes, vastnesses, verbalists, vestiaries, votaresses.