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stavesmen

stavesmen is the plural of stavesman.

Meaning of stavesman

Noun

stavesman (plural stavesmen)

  1. An official bearing a stave or wand.
    • The area of the square was crowded with stavesmen and spectators: the candidates rode as usual.1786 September 20, James Edward Smith, edited by [Pleasance] Smith, Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, M.D. […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green...

Questions about stavesmen

What is stavesmen the plural of?
Stavesmen is the plural of stavesman.

Words near stavesmen in the dictionary

  1. staves off
  2. stavesacre
  3. stavesacres
  4. Staveses
  5. stavesman
  6. stavesmen
  7. stavewood
  8. stavewoods
  9. staving
  10. staving in
  11. staving off

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