stave

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
3. A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
4. The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
5. The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
6. A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
7. A staff or walking stick.

Verb

1. To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
2. To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
3. To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
4. To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
5. To burst in pieces by striking against something.
6. To walk or move rapidly.
7. To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
8. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

Concepts

stave

staff

rod

stave in

spar

stake

rung

bar

cane

handle

pole

shaft

stick

stanza

round

lag

baton

verse

breach

batten

lath

plank

spoke

shatter

smash

club

fishing rod

lathi

disrupt

rupture

line

bend

curve

turn

turning

turnover

twiddle

verticil

wind

winding

wrest

bore

broach

drill

lance

prick

prong

punch

puncture

riddle

spear

sting

tap

terebrate

thrust

wimble

panel

ribbon

slab

slab billet

grizzly bar

cleat

furring strip

list

listing

molding

moulding

slate

ticket

sliver

Polish

coil

break

break up

bust

bust up

crack

foul

infringe

offend

renege on

renegue on

snag

total

transgress

violate

wash out

floorboard

parquet floor board

wooden block

pentagram

pentalpha

pentangle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/steɪv/

Etymology

Back-formation from staves, the plural of staff.