stave

• My body curved, I landed again and feinted, struck—but his stave was there before me, wood screaming as we smashed at each other. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 2] - Dead Man Rising
• He'd reached the cliff now, and fortune favored him a bit; his bow-stave was caught in the lowest branches of an everic. —  THE BLOOD KNIGHT
• Several of the other gentlemen, however, took up his stave, and soon began to be uproarious. —  Paddy Finn
• He could troll a pleasant stave, and loved, when off hunting or at work with his axe sometimes, to sing one of our C--- Sunday hymns, and whenever there was a respectable party in the evening, instead of the usual rioting set, he would willingly give them "The Fireside at home," "Merrily row, the Boat row," or any of the good old-fashioned songs, pure and inspiriting. —  Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors
• But if he could not handle his musket deftly, he could do what none else in that or any other corps could, he could sing a patriotic stave which thrilled the hearts not only of his comrades, but every Briton from Land's-end to Johnny Groat's This is one of the verses The kettle o' the kirk and state Perhaps a clout may fail in't But deil a foreign tinkler loan Shall ever ca' a nail in't Our fathers' blade the kettle bought And wha wad dare to spoil it By heavens! —  Robert Burns

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