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Meaning
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
,
barrel
,
pail
, etc.
●
One of the
bars
or
rounds
of a
rack
,
rungs
of a
ladder
, etc; one of the
cylindrical
bars
of a
lantern
wheel
●
In Poetry:
A
metrical
portion
; a
stanza
; a staff.
●
In Music:
The
five
horizontal
and
parallel
lines
on and between which
musical
notes
are
written
or
pointed
; the staff.
●
In Poetry:
The
initial
consonant
,
consonant cluster
, or
vowel
of a
word
which
rhymes
with another
word
with the same
consonant
or
vowel
in stave-rhyme.
●
A
sign
,
symbol
or
sigil
, including
rune
or
rune
-like
characters
, used in Icelandic magic.
●
A
staff
or
walking
stick.
Verb
●
To
fit
or
furnish
with staves or rundles.
●
To
break in
the staves of; to
break
a
hole
in; to burst.
●
To
push
, or
keep off
,
as with
a staff.
●
To
delay
by
force
or
craft
; to
drive
away.
●
To
burst in
pieces
by
striking
against something.
●
To
walk
or
move
rapidly.
●
To
suffer
, or cause to be
lost
by
breaking
the cask.
●
To
render
impervious
or
solid
by
driving
with a
calking
iron.
Name
●
A surname.
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