"Stave" is a word in ENGLISH
To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash
into fragments.
To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
To furnish with staves or rundles.
To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to
burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which
musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
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; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a
cask, a pail, etc.
A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the
bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking
iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has
been run.
To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with
off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run away... and throw me my mask!... Nor any other woman... ever, ever!... Ah, you can understand, my happiness was so great, I cried. And fell at her feet, crying... and I kissed her feet... her little feet... crying. You're crying, too, daroga... and she cried also... the angel cried!...
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A brace used to join two or more staves.
Read the complete definitionbángil v {1} [A; b5c] put s.t. beneath or next to s.t. to keep it from jiggling, rolling, sliding, etc. …
Read the complete definitionA round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with …
Read the complete definitionA small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
Read the complete definitionTo fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
Read the complete definitionTo stave in; to bilge.
Read the complete definitionA vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; …
Read the complete definitionA device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the …
Read the complete definitionA charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common …
Read the complete definitionA barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be …
Read the complete definitionToo chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
Read the complete definitionThe edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of …
Read the complete definitionA stave for a cask.
Read the complete definitionA small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves …
Read the complete definitionA kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
Read the complete definitionA cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; …
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Read the complete definitionA pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together …
Read the complete definitionhustu {1} proper in time. Hustu na rung ilarga, Now is a good time to leave. {2} enough, su? cient. …
Read the complete definitionA plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
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