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Meaning of 'stave' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Stave [ n.]
- 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; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
- One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
- 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.
- To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
- To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
- To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
- To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
- To furnish with staves or rundles.
- To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
2 . Stave [ v. i.]
- To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

Meaning of 'stave' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . stave [ v]
Meaning (1):
- furnish with staves
Example in sentence:
  • stave a ladder

Nearby Words:

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