Stave

Definition: Stave

Stave

Noun

1. (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written.

2. One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket.

3. A crosspiece between the legs of a chair.

Verb

1. Burst or force (a hole) into something.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stave" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stave

Concavity

Render concave; Adjective: depress, hollow; scoop, scoop out; gouge, gouge out, dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow, tunnel, stave in.

Contention

Verb: contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar, square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib, justle, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer; fight; (war); wrangle; (quarrel).

Hindrance

Keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert; turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let; counteract, countercheck; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop; inhibit; shackle; (restrain); restrict.

Lateness

Put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table; shift off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate; dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out; prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let the matter stand over; reserve; (store); temporize; consult one's pillow, sleep on it.

Opening

Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in.

Crosswords: Stave

Danish (spell), Norwegian (spell).

Look at all these people, trying to stave off the inevitable decay of their bodies. (Hannah and Her Sisters; writing credit: Woody Allen)

Look at all these people, trying to stave off the inevitable decay of their bodies. (Hannah and Her Sisters; writing credit: Woody Allen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Graffiti in Norwegian Stave Churches (Medieval Art in Norway) (reference)

• Mel Bay's Big Manuscript Book: 10 Stave (reference)

• Norwegian stave church sculpture (reference)

• Six Stave Manuscript Book (reference)

• Slate Gray Stave Manuscript Book (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

For many children with DiGeorge Anomaly, a tiny thymus will eventually grow big enough to produce enough T cells to stave off infection. (references)

Economic History

Zimbabwe

Increasingly this year, we are seeing job losses rather than gains, and a growing trend of scaled back workweeks to stave off shutdowns. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "stave": barrel stave ♦ stave in ♦ stave jointer ♦ stave of the thumb ♦ stave off ♦ stave rhyme ♦ stave wood ♦ To stave and tail. Additional references.

Beginning with "stave": stave-diving.

Ending with "stave": quarter-stave.

Albanian

stap (bat, cane, cosh, shillelagh, staff), dërrasë fuçie. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقطع شعري (stanza, verse), ‏هراوة (bat, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, club, cudgel, singlestick, truncheon), ‏هشم (pull down, pulverize, shatter, smash), ‏حرث (cultivate, dig, farm, furrow, plough, ploughing, plow, till), ‏عصا (cane, leg, perch, pole, prop, staff, stick, switch, tally, truncheon), ‏ضلع البرميل, ‏صد (alienation, baffle, balk, baulk, bear down, beat, beat off, blast, estop, estoppel, exclusion, fend, fend off, fight off, hit, hit back, hold off, jolt, kick, negative, parry, poach, push, push aside, push back, quash, rebuff, repel, repudiate, repulse, repulsion, return, riposte, snub, spurn, stamp down, stay, stay away, stem, throwback, toss, turn away, ward, ward off), ‏المدرج الموسيقي (staff), ‏درأ. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стъпало (foot, metatarsus, rung, running board, shoulder, sill, stage, step, tread), строфа (stanza, strophe, verse), слагам дъги, дъга (arc, bow, catenary, clapboard, curve, quadrant, rainbow, tug). (various references)

Chinese 

梯级 (staves). (various references)

Czech

strofa (stanza, verse), notová osnova, dužina sudu. (various references)

Danish

stavtræ (barrel stave), stave (spell), stav (arbor, member, rod cell, rod-shaped bacillus, shook, slat, stab cell, staff cell, stake, stanchion, stay, stud), toendestav (barrel stave), tøndestave, planke (batten, beam, deal, panel, plank, stud), plade (board, composite board, jacket, metal sheet, panel, plate, sheet, sheeting, slab, tablet), bræt (board, plank, shelf). (various references)

Dutch

vathout (barrel stave), vaathout (barrel stave), plank (board, plank, shelf), paneel (dash-board, panel, wainscot), kuiphout (barrel stave, shook), klaphout (barrel stave), duighout (barrel stave, shook), duigenhout (barrel stave), duig (barrel stave, stake, stanchion, stay). (various references)

Farsi 

ریزش کردن , باچماق زدن (Bludgeon), بندشعر (Stanza), دنده بشکه , شبیه لوله , شکستن (Break, Chop, Cleave, Crackle, Disobey, Fraction, Fracture, Infract, Infraction, Nick, Refract, Shatter, Smite, Violate), بشکل چوب دستی یاچماق وغیره دراوردن , میله نردبان , ایجادسوراخ کردن , حامل (Bearer, Carrier, Conveyer, Conveyor, Porter, Vehicle), لوله اب (Duct), کوبیدن (Beat, Bruise, Grind, Hammer, Knock, Mallet, Nail, Pash, Pound, Ram, Smite, Stub, Thrash, Thresh), چوب (Rod, Shaft, Spunk, Stick, Timber, Wood), چماق (Bat, Bludgeon, Cudgel, Mace, Maul, Stick), شیارهای نازک چوب . (various references)

Finnish

kimpi (barrel stave). (various references)

French

douve (stake, stanchion, stay). (various references)

German

fassdaube (barrel stave), derber Stock, daube (stake, stanchion, stay). (various references)

Greek 

βαρελοσανίδα. (various references)

Hebrew 

משע� ת (abutment, buttress, crutch, staff, support), מקל (extenuating, ferule, indulgent, lenient, palliative, rod, staff, stick, switch). (various references)

Hungarian

donga, vonalrendszer (staff, staves), versszak (stanza, verse), strófa (stanza, strophe, verse), létrafok (peg, round, rung, rung ladder, spoke, step, traverse), léc (batten, lath, slat, spacer, splint, stretcher), kotta öt vonala (staff, staves), hordódonga. (various references)

Indonesian

papan tong (barrel stave). (various references)

Italian

doga (lag). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

抑止 (check, checkmate, control, restraint, stave off), 凌ぐ (to defy, to eclipse, to endure, to excel, to keep out, to outdo, to pull through, to slight, to stave off, to surpass, to tide over), 凌 (defy, eclipse, endure, excel, keep out, pull through, slight, stave off, surpass, tide over, tiding over). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しのぐ (to defy, to eclipse, to endure, to excel, to keep out, to outdo, to pull through, to slight, to stave off, to surpass, to tide over), りょう (amount, catch, charge, companion, completion, defy, dormitory, eclipse, endure, excel, fee, finish, fishing, game, good, hostel, hunting, keep out, material, official, portion, pull through, quantity, rate, skill, slight, stave off, surpass, tide over, understanding, volume), よくし (check, checkmate, control, restraint, stave off). (various references)

Manx

cleeah (criss-cross, darn, fret, grate, grating, grid, lattice, school of fish, staff, stretcher, wicker), claare (bar counter, batten, board, platter, play bill, programme, table, table list), bad (bat, club, cudgel, trucheon). (various references)

Pig Latin

avestay

Portuguese

aduela (arch stone, barrel stave, hoop, segment, shook, voussoir). (various references)

Romanian

strofã (stanza, strophe, verse), portativ (portable, portative, staves), doagã (lag), baston (bat, baton, cane, cudgel, Mace, rod, staff, stick, walking stick), balustradã (balustrade, handrail, parapet, rail, railing). (various references)

Russian 

клепка (clapboard), перекладина (epistyle, horizontal bar, rail, slat, spar, spoke, traverse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrljika, prečaga (midriff, rail, round, rung), motka (bar, lath, perch, perk, pole, sprit, staff, stick), duga (arc, mane, rainbow, streamer). (various references)

Spanish

duela (barrel stave, lag, panel, stake, stanchion, stay). (various references)

Swedish

stav (baton, cane, rod, staff, stick). (various references)

Turkish

porte (staff), portatif merdiven basamağı (rung, spoke), nota çizgisi (staff, step), kıta (battalion, canto, continent, continental, corps, detachment, quatrain, stanza, strophe, verse), fıçıyı tahtalarla donatmak, fıçı tahtası (clapboard), çubuk (baton, chopstick, rib, rod, stick, strip, stripe, switch, tobacco pipe, wand), çıta (lath, slat, slip, stick). (various references)

Ukrainian

розбитися (crash), клепка (clapboard), пробити, патериця (crook), планка (batten, cleat, lath, ledge, splint, splinter, strip). (various references)

Welsh

ysgwr (shiver, splinter), erwydd. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stave": staved, staves, stavesacre, stavesacres. (additional references)

Words containing "stave": cowlstaves, distaves, flagstaves, pikestaves, quarterstaves, tipstaves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stave" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estave, Esteve, Istavan, Satva, savhe, scave, scavi, skave, spave, srave, staae, stabe, stace, stae, staf, stafe, stafu, staive, stase, stava, staver, staxe, staze, steave, stev, stevel, stibe, stieve, stiv, stiva, stiven, stoven, stovl, strave, stuv, stv, tave, tavi, tsade, Tsavo. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: vesta.

-1 letter: ates, aves, east, eats, etas, sate, save, seat, seta, tavs, teas, vase, vast, vats, vest, vets.

-2 letters: ate, ave, eat, eta, sae, sat, sea, set, tae, tas, tav, tea, vas, vat, vet.

-3 letters: ae, as, at, es, et, ta.

+1 letter: averts, avoset, savate, starve, staved, staves, traves, valets, vaster, vestal, vestas.

+2 letters: actives, advects, advents, adverts, aviates, avocets, avosets, bravest, caveats, datives, estival, gravest, harvest, levants, naivest, natives, octaves, savates, servant, solvate, spaviet, starved, starver, starves, stative, suavest, taverns, thraves, travels, vacates, vaguest, vainest, varlets, vastest, vastier, veritas, versant, vestals, vestral, vistaed, waviest, zemstva.