Definitions for the word, stave

(n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

(n.) 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.

(n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.

(n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

(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.

(n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

(n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.

(n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off.

(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.

(n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

(v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.


38 words found in the Scrabble word, stave



Scrabble letter values
A is 1 points
B is 3 points
C is 3 points
D is 2 points
E is 1 points
F is 4 points
G is 2 points
H is 4 points
I is 1 points
J is 8 points
K is 5 points
L is 1 points
M is 3 points
N is 1 points
O is 1 points
P is 3 points
Q is 10 points
R is 1 points
S is 1 points
T is 1 points
U is 1 points
V is 4 points
W is 4 points
X is 8 points
Y is 4 points
Z is 10 points



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