NOUN
  • Definition - 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, a pail, etc.
  • Definition - One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
  • Definition - A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
  • Definition - The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
  • Definition - A staff or walking stick.
  • Definition - A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
VERB
  • Definition - To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
  • Definition - (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
  • Example - to stave in a cask
  • Definition - (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
  • Example - to stave in a cask
  • Definition - (usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
  • Example - We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.
  • Definition - (rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
  • Example - We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.
  • Definition - To walk or move rapidly.
  • Example - We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.
  • Definition - To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
  • Example - We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.
  • Definition - To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
  • Example - to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run
Words in your word
5 Letter Words
stave 8 vesta 8
4 Letter Words
aves 7 save 7 tavs 7 vase 7 vast 7 vats 7 vest 7 vets 7 ates 4 east 4 eats 4 etas 4 sate 4 seat 4 seta 4 tase 4 teas 4
3 Letter Words
ave 6 sev 6 tav 6 vas 6 vat 6 vet 6 ate 3 eat 3 est 3 eta 3 sae 3 sat 3 sea 3 set 3 tae 3 tas 3 tea 3 tes 3
2 Letter Words
ae 2 as 2 at 2 es 2 et 2 ta 2 te 2
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