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Stave (noun)
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.
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Stave (noun)
One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
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Stave (noun)
A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
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Stave (noun)
The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
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Stave (noun)
A staff or walking stick.
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Stave (noun)
A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
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Stave (verb)
To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. from 1540s
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Stave (verb)
To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. from 1590s
“to stave in a cask”
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Stave (verb)
To push, or keep off, as with a staff. from 1620s
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Stave (verb)
To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
“We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.”
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Stave (verb)
To striking against something.
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Stave (verb)
To walk or move rapidly.
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Stave (verb)
To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
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Stave (verb)
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”
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Staff (noun)
A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
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Staff (noun)
A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written.
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Staff (noun)
The employees of a business.
“The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.”
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Staff (noun)
A mixture of W
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Staff (noun)
A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
“a constable’s staff”
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Staff (noun)
A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
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Staff (noun)
The rung of a ladder.
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Staff (noun)
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
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Staff (noun)
An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
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Staff (noun)
The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
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Staff (noun)
An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general’s staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
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Staff (verb)
To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.