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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. |
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One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the
bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc. |
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A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. |
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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. |
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To push, as with a staff; -- with off. |
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To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with
off; as, to stave off the execution of a project. |
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To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask. |
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To furnish with staves or rundles. |
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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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