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wring-staff

wring-staff is the alternative form of wring-stave.

Meaning of wring-stave

Noun

wring-stave (plural wring-staves)

  1. One of the strong pieces of wood used in applying wringbolts.

Forms of wring-staff

pluralwring-staves

Questions about wring-staff

What is wring-staff the alternative form of?
Wring-staff is the alternative form of wring-stave.

Words near wring-staff in the dictionary

  1. wrines
  2. wring
  3. wring out
  4. wring out one's sock
  5. wring-house
  6. wring-staff
  7. wring-stave
  8. wring-staves
  9. wringable
  10. wringbolt
  11. wringbolts

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