tetragrama

Phonetic: "/steɪv/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: 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, a pail, etc.

Definition: One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

Definition: A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Definition: The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

Definition: A staff or walking stick.

Definition: A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.

Phonetic: "/steɪv/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.

Definition: (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.

Example: to stave in a cask

Definition: (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.

Definition: (usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.

Example: We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.

Definition: (rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.

Definition: To walk or move rapidly.

Definition: To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.

Definition: To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

Example: to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run