The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STAVES
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More clues leading to the result STAVES
- Parts of barrels, tons in stores
- Music bars need new seats to muffle volume
- Music bars will need refurbished seats to muffle volume
- Verses of song in bars
- Poles hail saint on square outside
- Last two of these vats will be set up in the bars
- Music bars putting time into releases
- Avoids guards circling square
- Barrels turned up empty with some splits in wooden slats
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Parts of barrels" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case parts of barrels = staves.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does STAVES mean?
STAVES noun- (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
- (plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
- (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.
- A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.W
- A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
- A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
- The rung of a ladder.
- A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
- An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
- The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
- An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
- One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
- One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
- The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- A staff or walking stick.
- A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
- To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
- (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- (usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
- (rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
- To walk or move rapidly.
- To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
- To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.