Stave

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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, barrel, pail, etc.

   “For the Cherubims ſpread foorth their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the ſtaues thereof, aboue.”

2. isim One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
3. isim A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

   “Let us chaunt a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.”

4. isim The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
5. isim The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.

   “Ley, in his work on the Metrical Forms of Hebrew Poetry, 1866, has taken too little notice of these frequently occurring alliteration staves; Lagarde communicated to me (8th Sept. 1846) his view of the stave-rhyme in the Book[…]”

6. isim A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
7. isim A staff or walking stick.
8. fiil To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.

   “vpon paine of death to bring it out and to ſtaue it”

9. fiil To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.

   “to stave in a cask”

10. fiil To push, or keep off, as with a staff.

    “The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.”

11. fiil To delay by force or craft; to drive away.

    “We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.”

12. fiil To burst in pieces by striking against something.
13. fiil To walk or move rapidly.

    “He turned and blundered out of the house, stumbling over a chair and trying a wrong door on the way, and went staving down the street as if afraid to look behind him.”

14. fiil To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.

    “All the […]wine in the city hath been staved.”

15. fiil To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

    “to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run”

16. özel isim A surname.