stave
/steɪv/
Misollar
- The supple stave slid gracefully through the opening.
- I snapped a stave while bell-ringing on Monday.
- A win tonight is vital to stave off the threat of relegation.
- Give your kids peanuts when they're babies to stave off allergies.
- General Andrews sent for more reinforcements to stave off the enemy troops.
- You have to get more exercise in order to stave off senility.
fe’l verb
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(usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
to stave in a cask
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(usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.
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To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run
- To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
ot noun
- 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.
- One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
- The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.