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Stave
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
(2):
(n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
(3):
(n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
(4):
(n.) 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.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
(7):
(n.) To push, as with a staff; - with off.
(8):
(n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; - usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
(9):
(n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
(10):
(n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.
(11):
(n.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Stave'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/stave.html. 1828.
