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Stave   /steɪv/   Listen
verb
Stave  v. t.  (past & past part. stove or staved; pres. part. staving)  
1.
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.
2.
To push, as with a staff; with off. "The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance."
3.
To delay by force or craft; to drive away; usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project. "And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously."
4.
To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask. "All the wine in the city has been staved."
5.
To furnish with staves or rundles.
6.
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.
To stave and tail, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail.


Stave  v. i.  (past & past part. stove or staved; pres. part. staving)  To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments. "Like a vessel of glass she stove and sank."


noun
Stave  n.  
1.
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.
2.
One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
3.
A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. "Let us chant a passing stave In honor of that hero brave."
4.
(Mus.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or printed; the staff (7). (Obs.)
Stave jointer, a machine for dressing the edges of staves.





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"Stave" Quotes from Famous Books



... to crouch behind him, the young fellow stood at bay, hooting, shouting, and waving his stave in a semicircle, within whose sweep the creatures were not anxious to intrude. Weary at length of trying to surprise the fortress by a flank movement, yet reluctant to abandon the hope of seizing Pike, the wolves finally seated themselves upon their haunches ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... lay and listened, oh the river's sleepy tune Seemed to change its rippling music, like the cuckoo's stave in June, And the cannon's distant thunder and the engines' warlike drone Seemed to mingle with its burthen in a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, August 1, 1917. • Various
... well, the attempt to get the Religious Houses into the King's power had only partially succeeded. Bishop Fisher's influence had availed to stave off the fulfilment of the royal intentions up to the present; and the oath of supremacy, in which to a large extent the key of the situation lay, had been by no means universally accepted. Now, however, the scheme was to be pushed forward; and as a preparation for it, it was proposed to ...
— The King's Achievement • Robert Hugh Benson
... might be attempted in the legislative way is Smoke Prohibition. It is exactly a matter for the interference of the state. The Athenian in the comedy, wearied of war, concludes a separate peace with the enemy for himself, his wife, his children, and his servant; and forthwith raises a jovial stave to Bacchus. Now all sensible people would not only be glad to enter into amicable relations with Smoke, but would even be content to pay a good sum for protection against the incursions from factory chimnies and other nuisances in their neighbourhood. ...
— The Claims of Labour - an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed • Arthur Helps
... The bird whistled a stave of the Bird Music from "Siegfried," and then came to their feet to pick. Evelyn threw him some bread, and they wandered back to the novices, who had forgotten their differences, and were sitting under ...
— Sister Teresa • George Moore


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