stave
IPA: stˈeɪv
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, 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.
verb
- (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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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.
- Each chapter is called a stave, or stanza of the carol.
- Dressing was the preparation and shaping of the staves from the butt.
- Origin: A stave is a stick of wood, from the plural of staff, staves.
- To settle the matter, Robin and the stranger joust on the bridge with staves.
- He was singing a stave from the "Enniskillen Dragoon" when I came up with him
- 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.
- If you're buying a stave from a dealer, you'll save on drying time (4-6 weeks if cutting your own).
- So I would start interspersing other books in between the chapters to kind of stave off that terrible moment when the book ended.
- The inner form has one wedge-shaped loose stave which is withdrawn after the concrete has set for about 20 hours, thus collapsing the inner form and allowing it to be removed.
- Their poems were graven upon small staves or rods, one line upon each face of the rod; and the Old English word "stave," as applied to a stanza, is probably a relic of the practice, which, in the early ages, prevailed in the West.
- They've got to get a proposal together with, like, sheet music and all, and with the music constructed in GarageBand by yours truly, who barely knows a stave from a semi-quaver, getting that together is ... a challenge, as they say.