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.