pipestave
pipestave noun: a stave for a pipe (a type of cask).
Noun
pipestave (plural pipestaves)
- A stave for a pipe (a type of cask).
- In the following year [1642] the New Haven merchants launched one of their very few successful ventures by sending a vessel to the Canaries, and at about the same time an Englishman from Portuguese Madeira arrived in Massachusetts Bay, trading wine and sugar for pipestaves and provisions. In the...1955, Bernard Bailyn, The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century, Harvard University Press, page 83
- While the Pilgrims were still in Holland, a thriving barrel business developed in Maine at Pipestave Landing on the Piscataqua River. […] A pipe is a barrel, and pipestaves were sawn from white oak abundant in that area. Barrels were big business, used for containers of about everything, from fish...2001 April 13, John Gould, “Hay inspectors, hog reeves, and other essential jobs”, in The Christian Science Monitor, retrieved 25 Jan 2023
Forms of pipestave
| plural | pipestaves |
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Origin of pipestave
From pipe + stave.
Questions about pipestave
- What does pipestave mean?
- Pipestave means a stave for a pipe (a type of cask).
- What part of speech is pipestave?
- Pipestave is a noun.
- What is the plural of pipestave?
- The plural of pipestave is pipestaves.
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