Stave

·noun To furnish with staves or rundles.

II. Stave ·noun To push, as with a staff;

— with off.

III. Stave ·noun A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

IV. Stave ·noun To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

V. Stave ·vi To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

VI. Stave ·noun One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, ·etc.

VII. Stave ·noun To delay by force or craft; to drive away;

— usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

VIII. Stave ·noun The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

IX. Stave ·noun 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.

X. Stave ·noun 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.

XI. Stave ·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; ·esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, ·etc.