Stave (?), n. [From Staff, and
corresponding to the pl. staves. See Staff.]
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; esp., one of the strips which form
the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
2. One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern
wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
3. A metrical portion; a stanza; a
staff.
Let us chant a passing stave
In honor of that hero brave.
Wordsworth.
4. (Mus.) The five horizontal and
parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or
pointed; the staff. [Obs.]
Stave jointer, a machine for dressing the
edges of staves.
Stave, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Staved (?) or Stove (&?;); p. pr. &
vb. n. Staving.] [From Stave,
n., or Staff, n.]
1. 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.
2. To push, as with a staff; -- with
off.
The condition of a servant staves him off to a
distance.
South.
3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away;
-- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a
project.
And answered with such craft as women use,
Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance
That breaks upon them perilously.
Tennyson.
4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking
the cask.
All the wine in the city has been
staved.
Sandys.
5. To furnish with staves or rundles.
Knolles.
6. 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.
To stave and tail, in bear baiting, (to
stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear;
(to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail.
Nares.
Stave, v. i. To burst in pieces by
striking against something; to dash into fragments.
Like a vessel of glass she stove and
sank.
Longfellow.
Stave (?), n. [From Staff, and
corresponding to the pl. staves. See Staff.]
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; esp., one of the strips which form
the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
2. One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern
wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
3. A metrical portion; a stanza; a
staff.
Let us chant a passing stave
In honor of that hero brave.
Wordsworth.
4. (Mus.) The five horizontal and
parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or
pointed; the staff. [Obs.]
Stave jointer, a machine for dressing the
edges of staves.
Stave, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Staved (?) or Stove (&?;); p. pr. &
vb. n. Staving.] [From Stave,
n., or Staff, n.]
1. 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.
2. To push, as with a staff; -- with
off.
The condition of a servant staves him off to a
distance.
South.
3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away;
-- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a
project.
And answered with such craft as women use,
Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance
That breaks upon them perilously.
Tennyson.
4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking
the cask.
All the wine in the city has been
staved.
Sandys.
5. To furnish with staves or rundles.
Knolles.
6. 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.
To stave and tail, in bear baiting, (to
stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear;
(to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail.
Nares.
Stave, v. i. To burst in pieces by
striking against something; to dash into fragments.
Like a vessel of glass she stove and
sank.
Longfellow.
