| Stave (stave) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Stave |
| [From Staff, and
corresponding to the pl. staves. See Staff.] |
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.
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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.
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To burst in pieces by
striking against something; to dash into fragments.
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