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vine staves

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 (historical) A cane originally made of twisted grapevine trimmings and used by Roman centurions to beat the soldiers under their command; the various mushroom-headed batons later borne by them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

Questions about vine staves

What is vine staves the plural of?
Vine staves is the plural of vine staff.

Words near vine staves in the dictionary

  1. vine of Sodom
  2. vine scrub
  3. vine scrubs
  4. vine staff
  5. vine staffs
  6. vine staves
  7. vine weevil
  8. vine weevils
  9. vine-berries
  10. vine-berry
  11. vine-fretter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vine staves (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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