STAVE

noun to furnish with staves or rundles.

2. stave ·noun to push, as with a staff;

— with off.

3. stave ·noun a metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

4. stave ·noun to suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

5. stave ·vi to burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

6. stave ·noun one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, ·etc.

7. stave ·noun to delay by force or craft; to drive away;

— usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

8. stave ·noun the five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

9. stave ·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.

10. stave ·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.

11. stave ·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.