stave

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The warp will now be fixed in the loom as shown in the drawing in fig. 170 The placing of the coats upon the coat-stave is the next part of the preparatory work.

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  1. noun A narrow strip of wood forming part of the sides of a barrel, tub, or similar structure.
  2. noun A rung of a ladder or chair.
  3. noun A staff or cudgel.

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  • 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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fireplace ·  stove ·  oven ·  furnace ·  lamp ·  chimney ·  pot ·  heater ·  boiler ·  furniture ·  burner ·  grate

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stave:   stove ·  staved ·  staves
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Back-formation from staves, pl. of staff1.

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  1. from Middle English stæf, staf, stave, plural staves, steves, from Anglo-Saxon stæf plural stafas, a staff: see staff. Stave is another form of staff, arising from the Middle English oblique and plural forms. In the sense of” stanza” the word is prob. due to the collateral form, Icelandic stef, a stave, refrain.
  2. from stave, n., or directly from staff (with the usual change of f when medial to v; cf. strive, from strife, live, from life, wive, from wife, etc.). The proper preterit and past participle is staved; stove, like rove for reeved, conforms to the supposed analogy of drove, etc.
 

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