English-Finnish translations for stave

Definition of stave

  • 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
  • The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff
  • A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic
  • To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
  • To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
  • To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
  • To delay by force or craft; to drive away
  • To burst in pieces by striking against something
  • To walk or move rapidly
  • To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask
  • To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron

Examples

  • to stave in a cask
  • We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.
  • to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run

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