stave

To push, or keep off, as with a staff.

To delay by force or craft; to drive away.

To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.

To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.

To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.

(dialect, old-fashioned) To walk or move rapidly.

To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

(no longer used, rare) To burst in pieces by striking against something.

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, barrel, pail, etc.

The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

A staff or walking stick.

A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.

(rare) The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.