stave

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Synonyms: state, suave, stale, stare, stage, save, stake, stade, slave, shave, stove

Antonyms: state, suave, stale, stare, stage, save, stake, stade, slave, shave, stove

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Noun

{{senseid|en|strip for sides of vessel such as barrel}} One of a number of narrow [[strip]]s of wood, or narrow iron [[plate]]s, 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]], [[barrel]], [[pail]], etc.
One of the bars or [[round]]s of a [[rack]], [[rung]]s of a [[ladder]], etc; one of the cylindrical [[bar]]s of a [[lantern wheel]]
{{lb|en|poetry}} A [[metrical]] portion; a [[stanza]]; a [[staff]].
{{lb|en|music}} The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the [[staff]].
{{lb|en|poetry|rare}} The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in [[stave-rhyme]].
A [[sign]], [[symbol]] or [[sigil]], including [[rune]] or rune-like characters, used in [[Icelandic]] magic.
A [[staff]] or [[walking stick]].

{{lb|en|transitive}} To [[fit]] or [[furnish]] with staves or [[rundle]]s. {{defdate|from 1540s}}
{{lb|en|transitive|usually with 'in'}} To [[break]] in the staves of; to break a hole in; to [[burst]]. {{defdate|from 1590s}}
{{lb|en|transitive|with 'off'}} To [[push]], or [[keep off]], as with a [[staff]]. {{defdate|from 1620s}}
{{lb|en|transitive|usually with 'off'}} To [[delay]] by [[force]] or [[craft]]; to [[drive]] [[away]].
{{lb|en|intransitive|rare or archaic}} To [[burst]] in [[piece]]s by [[strike|striking]] against something.
{{lb|en|intransitive|old-fashioned|or|dialect}} 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.

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