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. (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.
6. A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
7. A staff or walking stick.

Verb

1. (transitive) To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
2. (transitive, usually) To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
3. (transitive) To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
4. (transitive, usually) To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
5. (archaic, intransitive, rare) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
6. (dated, dialectal, intransitive) 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.

Synonyms

staff

rod

stave in

spar

rung

stake

handle

shaft

pole

round

stanza

stick

cane

lag

bar

verse

shatter

baton

smash

batten

breach

lath

spoke

plank

offend

panel

pentagram

pentangle

prick

prong

punch

👊

puncture

renege on

ribbon

🎀

riddle

rupture

slab

slate

sliver

snag

spear

sting

tap

thrust

ticket

🎫

total

transgress

turn

turning

turnover

Translations

Daube

portée

doga

duela

Notenlinien

douve

staf

barra

Strophe

asser

Barre

vara

barra

Stange

bâton

Pronounced as (IPA)

/steɪv/

Etymology

Back-formation from staves, the plural of staff.