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1)  n. - A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.
2)  n. - One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
3)  n. - A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
4)  n. - The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
5)  n. - 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.
6)  n. - To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
7)  n. - To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
8)  n. - To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
9)  n. - To furnish with staves or rundles.
10)  n. - 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.
11)  v. i. - To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.