nave

noun4

1. •
   The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
2. •
   The ground-level middle cavity of a barn.
3. •
   A hub of a wheel.

   • 'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods, In general synod take away her power; Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven[…] — 1599
4. •
   (no longer used) The navel.

   • Till he faced the slave; / Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fix'd his head upon our battlements — 1606