Stave ¹

Definition: 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 ²

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

Stave ³

Definition: A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Stave ⁴

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

Stave ⁵

Definition: 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 ⁶

Definition: To push, as with a staff; with off.

Stave ⁷

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

Stave ⁸

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

Stave ⁹

Definition: To furnish with staves or rundles.

Stave ¹⁰

Definition: 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.

Stave ¹¹

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

stave ¹²

Definition: a crosspiece between the legs of a chair

stave ¹³

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

stave ¹⁴

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

stave ¹⁵

Definition: burst or force (a hole) into something

stave ¹⁶

Definition: furnich with staves; "stave a ladder"