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pipestaves

pipestaves is the plural of pipestave.

Meaning of pipestave

Noun

pipestave (plural pipestaves)

  1. (dated) 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

Questions about pipestaves

What is pipestaves the plural of?
Pipestaves is the plural of pipestave.

Words near pipestaves in the dictionary

  1. pipesmokers
  2. pipesmoking
  3. pipesnake
  4. pipesnakes
  5. pipestave
  6. pipestaves
  7. pipestem
  8. pipestems
  9. pipestone
  10. Pipestone County
  11. pipestones

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