staves
Barrel-making strips
Staves is the plural of staff in its older senses—wooden poles, walking sticks, or the vertical lines on which musical notation is written.
The pilgrims carried staves on their journey.
The composer wrote for strings across two staves.
For personnel or workforce, the plural is usually staffs.
Staves also serves as the third-person singular of stave: She staves off hunger with small meals.
Thick wooden club
- bludgeonHeavy blunt weapon
- truncheonShort thick stick
- shillelaghIrish wooden club-cane
- maceBludgeon with flanged head
pike · halberd · polearm · fighting · combat · defense · sparring · martial
Barrel-making trade
- casksStaved wooden containers
- hoopsCircular bands or rims
- bungsBarrel opening seals
- oakQuercus genus member
charred · toast · whiskey · bourbon · wine · rum · spirits · aging
Staff pitch indicator
- trebleHigh frequency range
- bassDeep pitch or fish
- altoLower female voice
- tenorEssential meaning or import
ledger lines · bar line · measure · time signature · key signature · notes · rests · sharp
cudgel
Thick wooden club
- bludgeonHeavy blunt weapon
- truncheonShort thick stick
- shillelaghIrish wooden club-cane
mace · pike · halberd · polearm · fighting · combat · defense · sparring · martial · striking
cooperage
Barrel-making trade
oak · charred · toast · whiskey · bourbon · wine · rum · spirits · aging · maturation
clef
Staff pitch indicator
tenor · ledger lines · bar line · measure · time signature · key signature · notes · rests · sharp · flat
verse
Metered poetic passage
limerick · couplet · quatrain · stanza · pentameter · iambic · trochee · dactyl · anapest · spondee
cane
Stick for support
alpenstock · ferrule · rambling · wayfaring · journey · mountaineering · grip · wooden · carved · support
- music basicsnotes, rests, beats, rhythm patterns, melody
- mystic symbolssigil, pentagram, glyph, rune, sigils
- Norse motifsworld tree, ravens, longships, Viking ships, knotwork
- sheet musicsheet music, treble clef, score, notes, scores
- barrel partshoop, hoops, head, bung, bunghole
- Norse magicrunes, rune stones, runestones, runic alphabet, warding
- stave offDelay or prevent
- staved offDelayed or prevented
- staving offPreventing or delaying
- stave inBreak by crushing inward
- staved inForcibly broken inward