Stave
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of 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; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, 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 set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
Verb
- To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
"to stave in a cask"
- To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
"We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger."
- To burst in pieces by striking against something.
Anagrams of Stave
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