stave

Definitions

1. 1noun

   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. 2noun

   One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.

3. 3noun

   A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

4. 4noun

   The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

5. 5noun

   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. 6noun

   To push, as with a staff; -- with off.

7. 7noun

   To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

8. 8noun

   To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

9. 9noun

   To furnish with staves or rundles.

10. 10noun

    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. 11intransitive verb

    To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

12. 12noun

    a crosspiece between the legs of a chair

    Synonyms

    roundrung
13. 13noun

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

    Synonyms

    lag
14. 14noun

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

    Synonyms

    staff
15. 15verb

    burst or force (a hole) into something

16. 16verb

    furnish with staves

    "stave a ladder"