STAVE
\stˈe͡ɪv], \stˈeɪv], \s_t_ˈeɪ_v]\
Definitions of STAVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
By Oddity Software
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One of the thin narrow strips of wood forming the sides of a cask or barrel; a pole or piece of wood of some length; in music, the five parallel lines on and between which the notes and rests are written; a staff.
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To break a hole in: with in; as, to stave in a boat; to make by breaking in the staves; as, to stave a hole in a boat; delay or put off; keep at a distance; drive away: with off; as, to stave off an illness or trouble.
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Staved.
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Staving.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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One of the pieces of which a cask is made: a staff or part of a piece of music: a stanza.
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To break a stave or the staves of: to break: to burst: to drive off, as with a staff: to delay:-pa.t. and pa.p. staved or stove.
By Daniel Lyons
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One of the pieces forming a cask; a stanza; short song.
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Staved, stove.
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To break the staves of; break; burst; drive off; delay.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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