- (n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
- (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
- (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; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
- (v.i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
- (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- (n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.
- (n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
- (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
- (n.) To suffer or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
- (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.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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