pipestave

Etymology

From pipe + stave.

pipestave means A stave for a pipe (a type of cask). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 99 out of 100.

noun

A stave for a pipe (a type of cask).“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,”