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stave 1. a stanza or verse of a poem 2. Music a. Brit an individual group of five lines and four spaces used in staff notation b. another word for staff stave [stāv] (design engineering) A rung of a ladder. Any of the narrow wooden strips or metal plates placed edge to edge to form the sides, top, or lining of a vessel or structure, such as a barrel. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I forget whether I have told you that there was a stave on the rock, driven into it by some buccaneers of long ago to mark the site of buried treasure. A sort of shivering gentility had kept her aloof from the rest of her fellow-workers, but it took more than a shivering gentility to stave off Polly. Shall we lie here till it comes night, or shall we risk it, and stave on ahead? |
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