Stave

Quick meaning: Stave is a noun meaning One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel.

Meaning

One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel.

More Meanings

1. (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
2. (music) The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
3. A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
4. A staff or walking stick.
5. (transitive) To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
6. (poetry, 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.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

to stave in a cask

vpon paine of death to bring it out and to ſtaue it

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

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

Word Forms

• staves
• staving
• staved

Synonyms for stave

Depending on context, synonyms include round, staff, lag, rung.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rung, round, lag, scope, avert, prevent.

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