stave Meaning & Definition
What Does Stave Mean?
Stave is a noun that means 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; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc. It is also used to mean One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel. As a verb, it means To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
Stave Definition (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; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
- One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
- The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- A staff or walking stick.
- A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
Stave as a Verb
- To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
to stave in a cask
- (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- (usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.
- (rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
- To walk or move rapidly.
- To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
- To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run
Synonyms of Stave
Stave synonyms and antonyms →Stave in a Sentence
to stave in a cask
We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.
to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run