Stave(n.) 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.
Stave(n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
Stave(n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
Stave(n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
Stave(n.) 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.
Stave(n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
Stave(n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
Stave(n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
Stave(n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.
Stave(n.) 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.
Stave(v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
Staved(imp. & p. p.) of Stave
Staves(n.) pl. of Staff.
Staves(pl.) pl. of Stave.
Staves(pl. ) of Staff
Staving(n.) A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.
Staving(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stave
Words within staves