ˈwring-staff, -stave rare—0.
[Cf. wring-bolt, wrain-stave.]
A staff for inserting in an eye of a ring-bolt.
| 1815 Burney Dict. Marine, Wring-staves..are strong pieces of wood used with the Wring-Bolts. [Hence in Crabb (1823) and some later Dicts.] 1884 Imp. Dict. s.v., Wring-staff;..called also Wrain-staff. |