Stave definition, one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel. Mar 09, 2020 Verb. Stave (third-person singular simple present staves, present participle staving, simple past and past participle stove or staved) To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.

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The latest version of Stave'n'Tabs is 4.2 on Mac Informer. It is a perfect match for Music Production in the Audio & Video category. The app is developed by Brave Cakes Studio. Stave definition is - any of the narrow strips of wood or narrow iron plates placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel (such as a barrel) or structure.

• Stave (Krupanj), a village in Serbia
• Stave Hill, in London
• Stave Lake, in British Columbia, Canada
• Stave River, in British Columbia, Canada
• Stave Run, a river in Virginia, United States

Other uses[edit]

• Stave (music), used in musical notation
• Stave (wood), of a barrel
• Stave church, a type of Medieval wooden church
• Joel Stave (born 1992), American football quarterback
• The Staves, an English folk rock trio

See also[edit]

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Back-formation from staves, the plural of staff.

Pronunciation[edit]

• enPR: stāv, IPA^(key): /steɪv/
• Rhymes: -eɪv

• Audio (UK)

Noun[edit]

stave (pluralstaves)

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, a pail, etc.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible,[…] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker,[…], , 2 Chronicles5:8:

     For the Cherubims ſpread foorth their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the ſtaues thereof, aboue.

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. (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
   • (Can we date this quote by Wordsworth and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     Let us chant a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.

4. (music) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
5. A staff or walking stick.
6. A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

stave (third-person singular simple presentstaves, present participlestaving, simple past and past participlestoveorstaved)

1. (transitive) To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. [from 1540s]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knolles to this entry?)

2. (transitive, usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. [from 1590s]

   to stave in a cask

   • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 12,^[1]

     A great Sea constant runs here upon the Rocks, and before they got to Land their Boat was stav’d in Pieces […]

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 22:

     Be careful in the hunt, ye mates. Don’t stave the boats needlessly, ye harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent within the year.

   • 1914, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Mucker‎^[2], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:

     …for the jagged butt of the fallen mast was dashing against the ship's side with such vicious blows that it seemed but a matter of seconds ere it would stave a hole in her.

3. (transitive, with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff. [from 1620s]
   • (Can we date this quote by South and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.

4. (transitive, usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to driveaway.

   We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.

   • (Can we date this quote by Tennyson and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     And answered with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously.

   • 2009, Brent Stransky, The Young Conservative's Field Guide‎^[3], page 39:

     Congress had authorized seeds to be granted to the farmers there to stave hunger, but President Cleveland vetoed the bill.

5. (intransitive, rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
   • 1746, Robert Forbes, The Lyon in Mourning‎^[4], volume 1, page 164:

     But Donald would not hear of that proposal at all, assuring the Prince that it was impossible for them to return to the land again, because the squall was against them, and that if they should steer for the rock the boat would undoubtedly stave to pieces and all of them behoved to be drowned, for there was no [fol. 284.] possibility of saving any one life amongst them upon such a dangerous rock, where the sea was dashing with the utmost violence.

6. (intransitive) To walk or move rapidly.
7. To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sandys and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     All the wine in the city has been staved.

8. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

   to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• “stave” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2020.

Anagrams[edit]

• Avest., Sveta, Vesta, evats, vates, vesta

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈstavɛ]

Stave Off

Noun[edit]

stave

1. vocativesingular of stav

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

stave

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1. Alternative form of staf

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norsestafa

Verb[edit]

Stave Off Meaning

stave (imperativestav, present tensestaver, simple past and past participlestavaorstavet, present participlestavende)

1. to spell (words)

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

Stave Definition

• “stave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borgund Stave Church