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.

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