Crossword-Solution: STAVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stave | n. | 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; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc. |
| Stave | n. | One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc. |
| Stave | n. | A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. |
| Stave | n. | The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff. |
| Stave | n. | To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat. |
| Stave | n. | To push, as with a staff; -- with off. |
| Stave | n. | To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project. |
| Stave | n. | To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask. |
| Stave | n. | To furnish with staves or rundles. |
| Stave | n. | To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run. |
| Stave | v. i. | To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STAVE | anagram | TEVAS, VASTE, VATES, VESTA |
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Sentences with STAVE (5)
The stave was still there, and on it Starkey had hung his hat, a deep tarpaulin, watertight, with a broad brim.
His heart began to sink within him; he endeavored to resume his psalm tune, but his parched tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, and he could not utter a stave.
CONTENTS Stave I: Marley's Ghost Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits Stave III: The Second of the Three Spirits Stave IV: The Last of the Spirits Stave V: The End of It STAVE I: MARLEY'S GHOST MARLEY was dead: to begin with.
Whence gather'd?--The locust's glad chirrup May furnish a stave; The ring of a rowel and stirrup, The wash of a wave.
Pressently{sic} a Strong male voice sang out to the measure of the violin: “Come, fairest maid, tread the dance with me; O heigh ho!” And a clear, tremulous treble answered: “So gladly tread I the dance with thee; O heigh ho!” Truls knew the voices only too well; it was Syvert Stein and Borghild who were singing a stave.
Quotes with STAVE (3)
Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak. Bide and borrow. Chimney smoke. Barrel. Barley. Stone and stave. Wind and water. Misbehave.
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.
To keep myself from harming or calling N and to stave off the rage and despair, I focus on my extraordinary son, drink midrange Chardonnay every night after he is asleep, and make a barrage of late-night mail-order retail purchases placed from the couch. The couch has officially become my second battle station. I am angry and I have credit And I´m all blackened inside; I should wear a pointy witch hat around Larkspur as I go to the bank and drop A off at day care. It would be more honest.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 218 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).