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pikestaves

pikestaves is the plural of pikestaff.

Meaning of pikestaff

Noun

pikestaff (plural pikestaffs or pikestaves)

  1. The wooden shaft of a pike.
  2. A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.
    • So soon as he got into the grave, he struck his pikestaff forcibly down; it encountered resistance in its descent1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and...

Questions about pikestaves

What is pikestaves the plural of?
Pikestaves is the plural of pikestaff.

Words near pikestaves in the dictionary

  1. pikes
  2. Pikes Peak
  3. pikeshaft
  4. pikestaff
  5. pikestaffs
  6. pikestaves
  7. piketail
  8. piketails
  9. piketoprofen
  10. Pikeville
  11. pikey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pikestaves (page history and authors); pikestaff (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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