STAVE OFF


Meaning of STAVE OFF in English

{v.}, {literary} To keep from touching or hurting you. Syn.: WARD OFF. * /The white knight struck with his sword. The black knight staved it off with his own sword./ * /Bill's warm new coal staved off the cold./ * /They staved off starvation by eating two of the sled dogs./

Slang English vocab.      Английский сленговый словарь.