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whipstaves

whipstaves is the plural of whipstaff.

Meaning of whipstaff

Noun

whipstaff (plural whipstaffs or whipstaves)

  1. A bar, going through the poopdeck, attached perpendicularly to the tiller for steering a ship.

Questions about whipstaves

What is whipstaves the plural of?
Whipstaves is the plural of whipstaff.

Words near whipstaves in the dictionary

  1. whipstalks
  2. whipstall
  3. whipstalled
  4. whipstalling
  5. whipstalls
  6. whipstaves
  7. whipster
  8. whipsters
  9. whipstick
  10. whipsticks
  11. whipstitch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whipstaves (page history and authors); whipstaff (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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