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Meaning of stave
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
- 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.
verb
- To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Example: to stave in a cask
- (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- (usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Example: We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.
- (rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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