What does the word stave mean?
Usage examples for stave
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" Good- evenin', ma'm," responded the man briefly, and not relaxing at all the energy with which he was trimming a barrel- stave. – The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt
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Thus the second stave is usually a perfectly obvious consequence of the first; and the third and fourth an exact or very slightly varied repetition of the first and second. – The Perfect Wagnerite A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw
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During my excursion to the shore to assist in the interment of Mr. Carver, it was my good fortune to find a hogshead stave floating in the water. – American Prisoners of the Revolution by Danske Dandridge