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Stave (st&ā;v), n. [From Staff, and corresponding to the pl. staves. See Staff.] 1. 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.
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2. One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
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3. A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
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Let us chant a passing stave
In honor of that hero brave. Wordsworth.
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4. (Mus.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or printed; the staff{7}. [Obs.]
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Stave jointer, a machine for dressing the edges of staves.
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Stave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Staved (st&ā;vd) or Stove (st&ō;v); p. pr. & vb. n. Staving.] [From Stave, n., or Staff, n.] 1. 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.
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2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
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The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance. South.
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3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
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And answered with such craft as women use,
Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance
That breaks upon them perilously. Tennyson.
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4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
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All the wine in the city has been staved. Sandys.
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5. To furnish with staves or rundles. Knolles.
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6. 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.
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To stave and tail, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. Nares.
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Stave, v. i. To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
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Like a vessel of glass she stove and sank. Longfellow.
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