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vine-staff

vine-staff is the alternative form of vine staff.

Meaning of vine staff

Noun

vine staff (plural vine staffs or vine staves)

  1. (historical) A cane originally made of twisted grapevine trimmings and used by Roman centurions to beat the soldiers under their command; the various mushroom-headed batons later borne by them as a mark of office.

Forms of vine-staff

pluralvine-staffs
pluralvine-staves

Questions about vine-staff

What is vine-staff the alternative form of?
Vine-staff is the alternative form of vine staff.

Words near vine-staff in the dictionary

  1. vine-growers
  2. vine-growing
  3. vine-leaf
  4. vine-leaves
  5. vine-like
  6. vine-staff
  7. vine-staffs
  8. vine-staves
  9. vine-tree
  10. vineal
  11. vineberries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vine-staff (page history and authors); vine staff (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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