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The correct spelling is stave.
How to pronounce stave
/steɪv/
nounIPA: /steɪv/
Say it like: Sta-ve
The correct spelling is stave. 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 stri… For example: "to stave in a cask"
Usage Examples
“to stave in a cask”
“We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.”
“to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run”
Meanings
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, a 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 five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- 5.A staff or walking stick.
verb
- 1.To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- 2.(usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
- 3.(with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- 4.(usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
- 5.(rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
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