Definitions for stave

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stave stave

Spelling: [steyv]

IPA: /steɪv/

Stave is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in stave (aestv).

Definitions for stave

noun

1. one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
2. a stick, rod, pole, or the like.
3. a rung of a ladder, chair, etc.
4. Prosody. a verse or stanza of a poem or song. the alliterating sound in a line of verse, as the w- sound in wind in the willows.
5. Music. staff1 (def 10).

Verb phrases

1. stave off, to put, ward, or keep off, as by force or evasion. to prevent in time; forestall:

verb (used with object)

1. to break in a stave or staves of (a cask or barrel) so as to release the wine, liquor, or other contents.
2. to release (wine, liquor, etc.) by breaking the cask or barrel.
3. to break or crush (something) inward (often followed by in).
4. to break (a hole) in, especially in the hull of a boat.
5. to break to pieces; splinter; smash.
6. to furnish with a stave or staves.
7. to beat with a stave or staff.

verb (used without object)

1. to become staved in, as a boat; break in or up.
2. to move along rapidly.

Origin of stave

1125-75; (noun) Middle English, back formation from staves; (v.) derivative of the noun

Examples for stave

And how much do you need to sweat to stave off the disease that kills 500,000 people every year?

Jack answered by a graceful flourish of his hands, and a stave of another song.

Will “loyalty cards” be enough to stave of a Republican massacre of House Democrats on Tuesday?

Here is Arnold of Sowley will troll as good a stave as any man in the Company.

While pundits think Morse is relatively safe in his effort to stave off recall, Giron is facing a much tighter race.

Somehow, he had hoped that his father and his friends might have been able to stave off ruin.

And she remembered her own passionate attempts to stave off despair by work.

No surprise, therefore, that women are desperate to stave off the “visible signs” of aging.

Four weeks after the injections, all 20 of the participants had developed the antibodies needed to stave off the infection.

If I could stave off poverty no real harm could come to my child.