stave

stave is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
3. noun. A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
4. noun. The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
7. noun. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
8. noun. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
9. noun. To furnish with staves or rundles.
10. noun. 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.
11. intransitive verb. To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
12. noun. a crosspiece between the legs of a chair

    Synonyms: round, rung

13. noun. one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

    Synonyms: lag

14. noun. (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

    Synonyms: staff

15. verb. burst or force (a hole) into something
16. verb. furnish with staves

    "stave a ladder"

Synonyms

round, rung, lag, staff

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stave:

vates, vesta

Common word forms

staved, staver, staves, staving, staveable, staveless

Words from these letters

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