Staves is valid Scrabble Word

Is staves a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is staves valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for STAVES in dictionary:

VERB:

STAVE, to drive or thrust away
break something by forcing it inwards or piercing it roughly
avert or delay something bad or dangerous

NOUN:

a vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure.
any of the lengths of wood fixed side by side to make a barrel, bucket, or other container.
a strong wooden stick or iron pole used as a weapon.
a set of five parallel lines on any one or between any adjacent two of which a note is written to indicate its pitch.
a verse or stanza of a poem.
pl. of Staff.

Words related to STAVES

staff11 stave8 staved10 staving11 stove8

Words that contain STAVES

distaves12 palstaves14 tipstaves14 cowlstaves18 flagstaves17 handstaves17 pikestaves19 stavesacre15 jackstaves26 stavesacres16 quarterstaves25

How to use STAVES in a sentence

The staves immediately began to grow, and they grew to be great.
And thou shalt make staves of sethim wood and cover them with gold, and put the staves in the rings along by the sides of the ark, to bear it withal.
And he made staves of sethim wood and covered them with brass, and put the staves in the rings along by the altar side to bear it withal, and made the altar hollow with boards.
And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of Iacinth, and put on her staves.
The children could be seen on barrel staves with a pair of old boots nailed to the centre into which they slipped their feet with their own boots on.
Some of them carried crests of green feathers, fastened upon long staves.
It was borne on the shoulders of priests by means of staves passing through rings in its sides, and was taken into the temple and deposited on a stand.
Naked soldiers wrestle in mad conflict, whirl staves above their heads, fling stones, displaying their coarse muscles with a kind of frenzy.
They galloped forward, and tried to make off, but were stopped by the staves of Starkad, and paid for it with their lives.
We had prepared, the evening before, a number of boards from the staves of a large barrel, to form our steps.

But here is presented to us an ingenious machine, which cuts down the oak, squares it, makes it into staves, and, gathering these together, forms them into casks.
And straightway, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
In their hands they held their long official staves.
These soldiers, as the victim passed, fell into line behind the cart, and kept off with their staves the crowd, eager to show its sympathy for Joan.
A circle of flexible staves is stuck into the ground, bent together and fastened at the top, and covered with skins.
It was the guards of the temple, armed with staves, a kind of police under the control of the priests.
The flat band was chosen for this work because it is the more effectively buried in and protected by the asphalt, and will not crush the soft wood staves under high pressure.
And the youth went daily to divert himself in the forest, by flinging sticks and staves.
The captain and his companions set about building a small boat of some old staves and pieces of deal they found washed up on the beach.
But there is not, and the red eye does not care whether the thing beneath its still wings stays or staves.
All carried staves bound with streamers of ribbons.
Then with a cord bind the staves as they are bent and permit them to remain thus tied until they retain the curved form of their own accord.
Some of them drilled with wooden staves and were laughed at.
Stuffed under their belts and through their packs they carry newspapers, broken staves for firewood, parcels from home, and sandbags loaded with mysterious comforts.
They were to eat it with loins girded, with their shoes on their feet, and with their staves in their hands, and to eat it in haste.

Similar words containing STAVE without suffix s

stave8 staved10 distaves12 palstave13 palstaves14 tipstaves14 cowlstaves18 flagstaves17 handstaves17 pikestaves19 stavesacre15 jackstaves26 stavesacres16 quarterstaves25

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