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Definition of 'stave'English
Noun
( en-noun)
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
(poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
* Wordsworth
- Let us chant a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.
(label) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
A staff or walking stick.
Verb
To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with in .
- to stave in a cask
* 1851 ,
- Be careful in the hunt, ye mates. Don’t stave the boats needlessly, ye harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent within the year.
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|passage=…for the jagged butt of the fallen mast was dashing against the ship's side with such vicious blows that it seemed but a matter of seconds ere it would stave a hole in her.
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To push, as with a staff. With off .
* South
- The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.
To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off .
- to stave off the execution of a project
* Tennyson
- And answered with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously.
To burst in pieces by striking against something.
To walk or move rapidly.
To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
* Sandys
- All the wine in the city has been staved .
To furnish with staves or rundles.
- (Knolles)
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
- to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run
Derived terms
* stave in
* stave off
Verb
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