Synonyms:
rung, round, stave
Meaning: a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
Synonyms:
stave, lag
Meaning: one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
Synonyms:
staff, stave
Meaning: (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
stave, stave_in
Meaning: burst or force (a hole) into something
Synonyms:
stave
Meaning: furnish with staves; "stave a ladder"
Usage examples
If we could only stave off battle long enough for it to reach us!"
"A college president might as well say that boys will play football, and that there's nothing they can do to stave off the inevitable consequences of playing the game to one who isn't prepared for it.
Here, in imitation of Malibran, she modified the original phrase of Bellini, so as to let her voice descend to the tenor G, when, by a rapid transition, she struck the G above the treble stave, springing over an interval of two octaves.
I sometimes wonder, Doctor, that you gentlemen, who have the public health more or less in your hands, don't take the initiative and stave off nervous prostration and other ills attendant upon a run-down physical condition instead of waiting for a fully developed case and trying to cure it after the fact.