Meaning

(dated) A stave for a pipe (a type of cask)..

Example Sentences

In the following year [1642] the New Haven merchants launched one of their very few successful ventures by sending a vessel to the Canaries, and at about the same time an Englishman from Portuguese Madeira arrived in Massachusetts Bay, trading wine and sugar for pipestaves and provisions. In the next year two New England seamen contracted with an English business agent in Fayal, one of the Azores, to deliver fish, oil, pipestaves, and hoops.

While the Pilgrims were still in Holland, a thriving barrel business developed in Maine at Pipestave Landing on the Piscataqua River. […] A pipe is a barrel, and pipestaves were sawn from white oak abundant in that area. Barrels were big business, used for containers of about everything, from fish peas to corned hake, and even rum.

Word Forms

• pipestaves

When Should You Use Pipestave?

Use pipestave when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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