different between staffless vs staveless

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staff +? -less

staffless (not comparable)

Without employees; unstaffed.
Without a staff, or walking-stick.
- 1989, Backpacker (volume 17, number 2, page 23)
  Picking up a good stick on the trail is usually easy […] Give it a good sling, or set it by the trailhead for the next staffless vagabond who passes by.
(music) Without the use of staves in its notation.
(of runes) Without vertical staves.

stave +? -less

staveless (not comparable)

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