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stave¹
- /steɪv/
Rhymes with -eɪv
Where it comes from
Back-formation from staves, the plural of staff.
noun staves
- 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. For the Cherubims ſpread foorth their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the ſtaues thereof, aboue.
- One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. Let us chaunt a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.
- The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme. Ley, in his work on the Metrical Forms of Hebrew Poetry, 1866, has taken too little notice of these frequently occurring alliteration staves; Lagarde communicated to me (8th Sept. 1846) his view of the stave-rhyme in the Book[…]
- A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
- A staff or walking stick.
verb staves · staving · staved · stove
- To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. vpon paine of death to bring it out and to ſtaue it
- To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. to stave in a cask
- To push, or keep off, as with a staff. The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.
- To delay by force or craft; to drive away. We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.
- To burst in pieces by striking against something. But Donald would not hear of that proposal at all, assuring the Prince that it was impossible for them to return to the land again, because the squall was against them, and that if they should steer for the rock the boat would undoubtedly stave to pieces and all of them behoved to be drowned, for th
- To walk or move rapidly. He turned and blundered out of the house, stumbling over a chair and trying a wrong door on the way, and went staving down the street as if afraid to look behind him.
- To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask. All the […]wine in the city hath been staved.
- 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
Stave²
Where it comes from
Various origins:
* Borrowed from North German Stave, an occupational surname for a judge or church official, from Middle Low German Staf (“staff”).
* Borrowed from Norwegian Stave, a habitational surname from five farmsteads in the country.
* Americanized form of Polish Staw, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
proper noun Staves
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: rung, round, stave in, lag, scope, avert, prevent, avoid, avoiding, rastrum, stour, stean, stalder, step, staple, stake
Translations
Every language
noun narrow strip, a part of a vessel
| Español | duela, doga |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 桶板 |
| Português | aduela |
| Français | douve |
| Deutsch | Daube |
| Italiano | doga |
| Română | doagă |
| Русский | клёпка |
noun metrical portion; stanza; staff
| Español | estrofa |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 节, 段 duàn |
| Français | strophe |
| Deutsch | Strophe, Vers |
| Italiano | strofa |
| Română | doagă |
| Русский | строфа́ strofá, стих stix |
noun parallel lines to write music on
| Español | pentagrama |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 五線 gosen |
| 中文 | 譜表 /谱表 pǔbiǎo, 五線譜 /五线谱 wǔxiànpǔ |
| Français | portée |
| Deutsch | Notenlinien, Notensystem |
| Italiano | pentagramma |
| Русский | но́тный стан nótnyj stan, нотоно́сец notonósec |
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