stave

IPA: stˈeɪv

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, barrel, 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.
(music) The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
(poetry, rare) The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
A staff or walking stick.
A surname.

(transitive) To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
(transitive, usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
(transitive, with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
(transitive, usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
(intransitive, rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
(intransitive, old-fashioned or dialect) To walk or move rapidly.
To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

Examples of "stave" in Sentences

Removal of the staves from the ark.
They are all listed in stave churches.
It is written on the stave in miniature.
It will stave off some of the questioning.
There are three 'Staves of the Unyielding Oak'.
Ref Borgund stave church and Urnes stave church.
Dressing was the preparation and shaping of the staves from the butt.
To settle the matter, Robin and the stranger joust on the bridge with staves.
The church is a triple nave stave church and is Norway's largest stave church.
They waddle to their seats waving hand held fans which stave off searing heat from sun.