Staves

"Staves" is plural for rods, so I do believe it would be "The staves of the Starmen."

Week 35: That Most Dangerous of Animals Douglas Wolk 2007

They had some Lumber on board, such as Staves, Heading, and Plank; also

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

With a caring, sharing folk head on, the night features six acts, with Philadelphia Grand Jury, To Kill A King, Pete Lawrie, Jamie Ley, the Staves and Alice Gold all performing live, while selectors from Chess Club will be picking tunes as will DJ Jam.

Clubs picks of the week 2010

Staves which I give to my Lord of Donnol if he be then of the House

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Staves went everywherethough not as successfully as if the fighting had been on solid, unslippery ground.

Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

Staves went everywherethough not as successfully as if the fighting had been on solid, unslippery ground.

Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

Staves rose, and the faces under the headdresses looked more like demon-lodge masks than Wobeku found pleasant.

Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993

Staves and hoary Beards in the Porticoes of their Houses untill the Enemy entered the City, and altho they confessed they resembled the Gods, put them to the Sword.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 19 August 1777 1963

Is not an Assault upon a civil officer, and a Rescue of a Prisoner from of lawfull Authority, made by Soldiers with Swords or Bayonets, as bad as if made [by] Tradesmen with Staves?

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1774, "Mobs are the trite Topick..." 1963

Any Goods or Commodities, except Staves for Sale, may be exported, from the united Colonies to any other Part of the World, not subject to the Crown of

John Adams diary 26, notes on Continental Congress, 16 February - April 1776 1961