Definition of stave in English:

stave

noun steɪvsteɪv

1A vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure.
（建筑物或其他结构中的）木柱；狭木板
Example sentencesExamples
- By looking at the end grain, it was often possible to determine whether the darts were made from natural shafts or split from larger pieces of wood in the form of staves.
- It's like a workshop in Hades - you feel the heat from barrels set over open fires in the floor and hear the piercing din of hammers on steel as hoops are pounded onto staves.
- Here there were no men training, only a few targets and a pile of wooden staves in the corner.
- One corner of the room contains tall curving birch staves that are evocative of a forest.
- Cutting staves led to the purchase of a kiln, which, in turn, opened up additional markets.
- Newhaus spent IR £35,000 on just elevating the site. He then had to install staves to reinforce the foundations further.
Synonyms
post, pole, stick, spike, upright, support, prop, strut, stave, pale, paling, picket, pile, piling, stanchion, shaft, cane, beanpole, rod, mast
1. 1.1 Any of the lengths of wood fixed side by side to make a barrel, bucket, or other container.
  桶板
  Example sentencesExamples
  For three years the wine is aged in new barrels made of hand-split oak staves.
  Close by was apparently another barrel which had collapsed as only the staves - still well preserved - remained.
  The sun louvers were made of salvaged barrel staves from a nearby pickle factory.
  Experiments with brandy as well as wine, however, demonstrate the superiority of air-dried over kiln-dried wood for barrel staves.
  The wood of the stave and arrow shafts was dark with moisture.
  Richard worked just about every job in that business, from harvesting logs to make the barrel staves through to coopering and trucking the water-tight barrels to fishery clients in Atlantic Canada.
  The adventures that he and his friends shared on the Red River in a homemade canoe made of barrel staves and grain sacks became a favorite memory.
  They entered the market obliquely through the production of non-agricultural products such as barrel staves that they bartered for textiles, hardware and cheap consumer goods.
  Wilcox's experience as a logger developed into another niche market: cutting staves for a barrel maker.
  It was carried out with a stocking filled with sand or sometimes wooden staves from a cask.
  To illustrate this, Liebig imagined a barrel crafted out of staves of mismatched lengths.
2. 1.2 A strong wooden stick or iron pole used as a weapon.
  棍，棒，杖
  Example sentencesExamples
  They fought the riot police with staves and stones.
  Gold-covered wooden staves were used to carry The Ark Of The Covenant.
  Gabe stalked over to the weapons rack and pulled down two wooden staves, in a bad temper because his preferred sword hadn't been chosen.
  Arms and wooden staves waved in crazy confusion above the human mass and from it projectiles - bricks, rocks, bars of iron - arced into the line of men.
  The recital of her crime too was read out as she knelt, and then the executioner stepped forward with a wooden stave and dealt a hundred blows upon her shoulder.
  He could make out the glint of staves and unsheathed swords through the swirling dust.
  Jonathan trained his crossbow on the back door while Kyli and Ben stood on either side of the door with their staves raised.
  The same leaders of more than 50 men who beat Peter Cavanaugh to death with wooden staves forbade anyone other than close relatives from attending the burial.
  Every character has swords, staves or other edged weaponry, which you can perform light spin attacks or strong power strikes on opponents.
  Len Smith was attacked just seconds after reaching his 46th birthday and was beaten savagely with a wooden stave picked up in the beer garden of his pub in Salford.
  On the roadway, the supporters were shouting at the crowd to move back, staves were being swung, a few punches thrown.
  Vigilante groups dressed in robes and turbans, armed with staves and swords and mounted on motorbikes, patrol the city to enforce the curfew.
  They responded by putting down their staves and harpoons.
  In the center lie a pile of wooden swords, staves, daggers, shields.
  He used his stave like a walking cane, swinging it before him with a tap of his boot.
  As he searched, he spotted a wooden stave laying in the dirt.
  The end of the room was guarded by two women in long white-gold robes, standing to attention, their ornately carved staves upright.
  Anyone who remembered the plastic visors, the guns and staves of police guarding the Justice Department during Vietnam protests had to be struck with the civility of it all.
  The two guards were confronted by four men in balaclavas, armed with a small samurai sword and wooden staves.
  I started to crash to the stones of the courtyard, only to find myself being supported by Gareth, who had immediately dropped his stave to catch me.
2British Music
A set of five parallel lines on any one or between any adjacent two of which a note is written to indicate its pitch.
〔乐〕五线谱
Example sentencesExamples
- A typical graph contains one or more grand staves, or piano staves, so one will likely begin with a piano template.
- In his Alphabet des mouvements du corps humain he placed movement symbols on a special stave while recording the floor patterns above it.
3A verse or stanza of a poem.
诗节，诗句
Synonyms
stanza, strophe, stave, canto

verb steɪvsteɪv

[with object]

1stave something inBreak something by forcing it inwards or piercing it roughly.
压坏；击穿，击破
the door was staved in
门被打穿了一个洞。
Synonyms
break in, smash in, put a hole in, push in, kick in, cave in, splinter, shiver, fracture
2stave something offAvert or delay something bad or dangerous.
挡开，避开；延缓
a reassuring presence can stave off a panic attack
拥有自信可以避免惊惶失态。
Example sentencesExamples
- A Ringwood business has staved off an enforcement notice from New Forest district council at the 11th hour.
- While the humanitarian program in that country has successfully staved off starvation, the level of malnutrition remains high and directly contributes to the morbidity and mortality.
- Every step of the film is grounded in common logic and practicality - civilian survivors mourn their dead, band together into surrogate families, stave off the infected and turn to soldiers for protection.
- The narrator has achieved her distance from this idyll and its tragic end; she has spotted the fatal hubris of her fifteen-year-old self - the certainty that death can be staved off by love.
- Its death has been staved off by the IVF freezing process.
- A similar move to repeal these taxes last August in Congress was staved off when President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have gradually repealed federal inheritance taxes.
- Japan had hoped that the resumption of talks in September would help the countries settle the issue and stave off mounting cries on both sides for further escalation.
- But at least you've staved it off for 30, 40 years so that you don't get those proportionate deadly results.
- Papua New Guinea prime minister staves off leadership challenge
- At the same time, utter nihilism is staved off with some incisive and poignantly human touches.
- But we could not have staved if off any longer in this day and age - and we were one of the few clubs in the country which did not have women as full members.
- They shrugged after the second Test was lost by a whimper, then spoke of relief when defeat was staved off in the third.
- But, largely thanks to the efforts of the ‘Save the Jags’ campaign, under whose auspices Thistle supporters rallied to raise funds, the immediate threat of closure was staved off.
- Yet, and though it might seem unpalatable to the Rangers faithful, the truth is that the full effects of the club's trade deficit continue to be staved off in a footballing context.
- In cults and controlling groups the crisis of admitting that everything one has believed is wrong is staved off by finding new explanations for discrepancies in the group's ideas and rules.
- Soybeans are high in protein and soy fiber staves off hunger.
- The top seed staves off a break point with his second ace and clings on.
- But, following a shake-up of the board and some work being undertaken on the green, the axe has been staved off for the time being.
- We have staved off other suppliers that have been threatening winding-up orders so the Inland Revenue has increased again.
- Despite an environmentally hostile administration and a country preoccupied with the threat of war and terrorism, some key threats to the environment were staved off.
Synonyms
avert, prevent, avoid, preclude, rule out, counter, forestall, nip in the bud
ward off, fend off, head off, keep off, keep at bay

Origin

Middle English: back-formation from staves, archaic plural of staff¹. Current senses of the verb date from the early 17th century.

Old English staff ‘walking stick’ had a plural staves, which with the -s dropped became stave—the sort of stick from which you could built a barrel. Use as a musical term for a set of lines for musical notation dates from the early 19th century. Current senses of the verb date from the early 17th century, with stave off—fend off as if with a staff—found from the same date.

Rhymes

behave, brave, Cave, clave, concave, crave, Dave, deprave, engrave, enslave, fave, forgave, gave, grave, knave, lave, Maeve, misbehave, misgave, nave, outbrave, pave, rave, save, shave, shortwave, slave, they've, waive, wave

Definition of stave in US English:

stave

nounsteɪvstāv

1A vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure.
（建筑物或其他结构中的）木柱；狭木板
Example sentencesExamples
- Cutting staves led to the purchase of a kiln, which, in turn, opened up additional markets.
- Newhaus spent IR £35,000 on just elevating the site. He then had to install staves to reinforce the foundations further.
- One corner of the room contains tall curving birch staves that are evocative of a forest.
- Here there were no men training, only a few targets and a pile of wooden staves in the corner.
- By looking at the end grain, it was often possible to determine whether the darts were made from natural shafts or split from larger pieces of wood in the form of staves.
- It's like a workshop in Hades - you feel the heat from barrels set over open fires in the floor and hear the piercing din of hammers on steel as hoops are pounded onto staves.
Synonyms
post, pole, stick, spike, upright, support, prop, strut, stave, pale, paling, picket, pile, piling, stanchion, shaft, cane, beanpole, rod, mast
1. 1.1 Any of the lengths of wood attached side by side to make a barrel, bucket, or other container.
  桶板
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was carried out with a stocking filled with sand or sometimes wooden staves from a cask.
  Close by was apparently another barrel which had collapsed as only the staves - still well preserved - remained.
  The wood of the stave and arrow shafts was dark with moisture.
  Wilcox's experience as a logger developed into another niche market: cutting staves for a barrel maker.
  Richard worked just about every job in that business, from harvesting logs to make the barrel staves through to coopering and trucking the water-tight barrels to fishery clients in Atlantic Canada.
  The adventures that he and his friends shared on the Red River in a homemade canoe made of barrel staves and grain sacks became a favorite memory.
  To illustrate this, Liebig imagined a barrel crafted out of staves of mismatched lengths.
  For three years the wine is aged in new barrels made of hand-split oak staves.
  The sun louvers were made of salvaged barrel staves from a nearby pickle factory.
  They entered the market obliquely through the production of non-agricultural products such as barrel staves that they bartered for textiles, hardware and cheap consumer goods.
  Experiments with brandy as well as wine, however, demonstrate the superiority of air-dried over kiln-dried wood for barrel staves.
2. 1.2 A strong wooden stick or iron pole used as a weapon.
  棍，棒，杖
  Example sentencesExamples
  As he searched, he spotted a wooden stave laying in the dirt.
  Gold-covered wooden staves were used to carry The Ark Of The Covenant.
  Jonathan trained his crossbow on the back door while Kyli and Ben stood on either side of the door with their staves raised.
  He used his stave like a walking cane, swinging it before him with a tap of his boot.
  They fought the riot police with staves and stones.
  Anyone who remembered the plastic visors, the guns and staves of police guarding the Justice Department during Vietnam protests had to be struck with the civility of it all.
  I started to crash to the stones of the courtyard, only to find myself being supported by Gareth, who had immediately dropped his stave to catch me.
  The end of the room was guarded by two women in long white-gold robes, standing to attention, their ornately carved staves upright.
  Gabe stalked over to the weapons rack and pulled down two wooden staves, in a bad temper because his preferred sword hadn't been chosen.
  Every character has swords, staves or other edged weaponry, which you can perform light spin attacks or strong power strikes on opponents.
  In the center lie a pile of wooden swords, staves, daggers, shields.
  The two guards were confronted by four men in balaclavas, armed with a small samurai sword and wooden staves.
  They responded by putting down their staves and harpoons.
  The same leaders of more than 50 men who beat Peter Cavanaugh to death with wooden staves forbade anyone other than close relatives from attending the burial.
  Len Smith was attacked just seconds after reaching his 46th birthday and was beaten savagely with a wooden stave picked up in the beer garden of his pub in Salford.
  The recital of her crime too was read out as she knelt, and then the executioner stepped forward with a wooden stave and dealt a hundred blows upon her shoulder.
  Arms and wooden staves waved in crazy confusion above the human mass and from it projectiles - bricks, rocks, bars of iron - arced into the line of men.
  He could make out the glint of staves and unsheathed swords through the swirling dust.
  On the roadway, the supporters were shouting at the crowd to move back, staves were being swung, a few punches thrown.
  Vigilante groups dressed in robes and turbans, armed with staves and swords and mounted on motorbikes, patrol the city to enforce the curfew.
2British Music
another term for staff (sense 4 of the noun)
Example sentencesExamples
- A typical graph contains one or more grand staves, or piano staves, so one will likely begin with a piano template.
- In his Alphabet des mouvements du corps humain he placed movement symbols on a special stave while recording the floor patterns above it.
3A verse or stanza of a poem.
诗节，诗句
Synonyms
stanza, strophe, stave, canto

verbsteɪvstāv

[with object]

1stave something inBreak something by forcing it inward or piercing it roughly.
压坏；击穿，击破
the door was staved in
门被打穿了一个洞。
Synonyms
break in, smash in, put a hole in, push in, kick in, cave in, splinter, shiver, fracture
2stave something offAvert or delay something bad or dangerous.
挡开，避开；延缓
a reassuring presence can stave off a panic attack
拥有自信可以避免惊惶失态。
Example sentencesExamples
- Despite an environmentally hostile administration and a country preoccupied with the threat of war and terrorism, some key threats to the environment were staved off.
- Yet, and though it might seem unpalatable to the Rangers faithful, the truth is that the full effects of the club's trade deficit continue to be staved off in a footballing context.
- At the same time, utter nihilism is staved off with some incisive and poignantly human touches.
- But, following a shake-up of the board and some work being undertaken on the green, the axe has been staved off for the time being.
- The top seed staves off a break point with his second ace and clings on.
- Every step of the film is grounded in common logic and practicality - civilian survivors mourn their dead, band together into surrogate families, stave off the infected and turn to soldiers for protection.
- But we could not have staved if off any longer in this day and age - and we were one of the few clubs in the country which did not have women as full members.
- Its death has been staved off by the IVF freezing process.
- A similar move to repeal these taxes last August in Congress was staved off when President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have gradually repealed federal inheritance taxes.
- We have staved off other suppliers that have been threatening winding-up orders so the Inland Revenue has increased again.
- A Ringwood business has staved off an enforcement notice from New Forest district council at the 11th hour.
- They shrugged after the second Test was lost by a whimper, then spoke of relief when defeat was staved off in the third.
- Papua New Guinea prime minister staves off leadership challenge
- The narrator has achieved her distance from this idyll and its tragic end; she has spotted the fatal hubris of her fifteen-year-old self - the certainty that death can be staved off by love.
- While the humanitarian program in that country has successfully staved off starvation, the level of malnutrition remains high and directly contributes to the morbidity and mortality.
- But, largely thanks to the efforts of the ‘Save the Jags’ campaign, under whose auspices Thistle supporters rallied to raise funds, the immediate threat of closure was staved off.
- But at least you've staved it off for 30, 40 years so that you don't get those proportionate deadly results.
- Japan had hoped that the resumption of talks in September would help the countries settle the issue and stave off mounting cries on both sides for further escalation.
- In cults and controlling groups the crisis of admitting that everything one has believed is wrong is staved off by finding new explanations for discrepancies in the group's ideas and rules.
- Soybeans are high in protein and soy fiber staves off hunger.
Synonyms
avert, prevent, avoid, preclude, rule out, counter, forestall, nip in the bud

Origin

Middle English: back-formation from staves, archaic plural of staff. Current senses of the verb date from the early 17th century.

单词	stave
释义	Definition of stave in English: stave noun steɪvsteɪv 1A vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure. （建筑物或其他结构中的）木柱；狭木板 Example sentencesExamples By looking at the end grain, it was often possible to determine whether the darts were made from natural shafts or split from larger pieces of wood in the form of staves. It's like a workshop in Hades - you feel the heat from barrels set over open fires in the floor and hear the piercing din of hammers on steel as hoops are pounded onto staves. Here there were no men training, only a few targets and a pile of wooden staves in the corner. One corner of the room contains tall curving birch staves that are evocative of a forest. Cutting staves led to the purchase of a kiln, which, in turn, opened up additional markets. Newhaus spent IR £35,000 on just elevating the site. He then had to install staves to reinforce the foundations further. Synonyms post, pole, stick, spike, upright, support, prop, strut, stave, pale, paling, picket, pile, piling, stanchion, shaft, cane, beanpole, rod, mast 1.1 Any of the lengths of wood fixed side by side to make a barrel, bucket, or other container. 桶板 Example sentencesExamples For three years the wine is aged in new barrels made of hand-split oak staves. Close by was apparently another barrel which had collapsed as only the staves - still well preserved - remained. The sun louvers were made of salvaged barrel staves from a nearby pickle factory. Experiments with brandy as well as wine, however, demonstrate the superiority of air-dried over kiln-dried wood for barrel staves. The wood of the stave and arrow shafts was dark with moisture. Richard worked just about every job in that business, from harvesting logs to make the barrel staves through to coopering and trucking the water-tight barrels to fishery clients in Atlantic Canada. The adventures that he and his friends shared on the Red River in a homemade canoe made of barrel staves and grain sacks became a favorite memory. They entered the market obliquely through the production of non-agricultural products such as barrel staves that they bartered for textiles, hardware and cheap consumer goods. Wilcox's experience as a logger developed into another niche market: cutting staves for a barrel maker. It was carried out with a stocking filled with sand or sometimes wooden staves from a cask. To illustrate this, Liebig imagined a barrel crafted out of staves of mismatched lengths. 1.2 A strong wooden stick or iron pole used as a weapon. 棍，棒，杖 Example sentencesExamples They fought the riot police with staves and stones. Gold-covered wooden staves were used to carry The Ark Of The Covenant. Gabe stalked over to the weapons rack and pulled down two wooden staves, in a bad temper because his preferred sword hadn't been chosen. Arms and wooden staves waved in crazy confusion above the human mass and from it projectiles - bricks, rocks, bars of iron - arced into the line of men. The recital of her crime too was read out as she knelt, and then the executioner stepped forward with a wooden stave and dealt a hundred blows upon her shoulder. He could make out the glint of staves and unsheathed swords through the swirling dust. Jonathan trained his crossbow on the back door while Kyli and Ben stood on either side of the door with their staves raised. The same leaders of more than 50 men who beat Peter Cavanaugh to death with wooden staves forbade anyone other than close relatives from attending the burial. Every character has swords, staves or other edged weaponry, which you can perform light spin attacks or strong power strikes on opponents. Len Smith was attacked just seconds after reaching his 46th birthday and was beaten savagely with a wooden stave picked up in the beer garden of his pub in Salford. On the roadway, the supporters were shouting at the crowd to move back, staves were being swung, a few punches thrown. Vigilante groups dressed in robes and turbans, armed with staves and swords and mounted on motorbikes, patrol the city to enforce the curfew. They responded by putting down their staves and harpoons. In the center lie a pile of wooden swords, staves, daggers, shields. He used his stave like a walking cane, swinging it before him with a tap of his boot. As he searched, he spotted a wooden stave laying in the dirt. The end of the room was guarded by two women in long white-gold robes, standing to attention, their ornately carved staves upright. Anyone who remembered the plastic visors, the guns and staves of police guarding the Justice Department during Vietnam protests had to be struck with the civility of it all. The two guards were confronted by four men in balaclavas, armed with a small samurai sword and wooden staves. I started to crash to the stones of the courtyard, only to find myself being supported by Gareth, who had immediately dropped his stave to catch me. 2British Music A set of five parallel lines on any one or between any adjacent two of which a note is written to indicate its pitch. 〔乐〕五线谱 Example sentencesExamples A typical graph contains one or more grand staves, or piano staves, so one will likely begin with a piano template. In his Alphabet des mouvements du corps humain he placed movement symbols on a special stave while recording the floor patterns above it. 3A verse or stanza of a poem. 诗节，诗句 Synonyms stanza, strophe, stave, canto verb steɪvsteɪv [with object] 1stave something inBreak something by forcing it inwards or piercing it roughly. 压坏；击穿，击破 the door was staved in 门被打穿了一个洞。 Synonyms break in, smash in, put a hole in, push in, kick in, cave in, splinter, shiver, fracture 2stave something offAvert or delay something bad or dangerous. 挡开，避开；延缓 a reassuring presence can stave off a panic attack 拥有自信可以避免惊惶失态。 Example sentencesExamples A Ringwood business has staved off an enforcement notice from New Forest district council at the 11th hour. While the humanitarian program in that country has successfully staved off starvation, the level of malnutrition remains high and directly contributes to the morbidity and mortality. Every step of the film is grounded in common logic and practicality - civilian survivors mourn their dead, band together into surrogate families, stave off the infected and turn to soldiers for protection. The narrator has achieved her distance from this idyll and its tragic end; she has spotted the fatal hubris of her fifteen-year-old self - the certainty that death can be staved off by love. Its death has been staved off by the IVF freezing process. A similar move to repeal these taxes last August in Congress was staved off when President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have gradually repealed federal inheritance taxes. Japan had hoped that the resumption of talks in September would help the countries settle the issue and stave off mounting cries on both sides for further escalation. But at least you've staved it off for 30, 40 years so that you don't get those proportionate deadly results. Papua New Guinea prime minister staves off leadership challenge At the same time, utter nihilism is staved off with some incisive and poignantly human touches. But we could not have staved if off any longer in this day and age - and we were one of the few clubs in the country which did not have women as full members. They shrugged after the second Test was lost by a whimper, then spoke of relief when defeat was staved off in the third. But, largely thanks to the efforts of the ‘Save the Jags’ campaign, under whose auspices Thistle supporters rallied to raise funds, the immediate threat of closure was staved off. Yet, and though it might seem unpalatable to the Rangers faithful, the truth is that the full effects of the club's trade deficit continue to be staved off in a footballing context. In cults and controlling groups the crisis of admitting that everything one has believed is wrong is staved off by finding new explanations for discrepancies in the group's ideas and rules. Soybeans are high in protein and soy fiber staves off hunger. The top seed staves off a break point with his second ace and clings on. But, following a shake-up of the board and some work being undertaken on the green, the axe has been staved off for the time being. We have staved off other suppliers that have been threatening winding-up orders so the Inland Revenue has increased again. Despite an environmentally hostile administration and a country preoccupied with the threat of war and terrorism, some key threats to the environment were staved off. Synonyms avert, prevent, avoid, preclude, rule out, counter, forestall, nip in the bud ward off, fend off, head off, keep off, keep at bay Origin Middle English: back-formation from staves, archaic plural of staff¹. Current senses of the verb date from the early 17th century. Old English staff ‘walking stick’ had a plural staves, which with the -s dropped became stave—the sort of stick from which you could built a barrel. Use as a musical term for a set of lines for musical notation dates from the early 19th century. Current senses of the verb date from the early 17th century, with stave off—fend off as if with a staff—found from the same date. Rhymes behave, brave, Cave, clave, concave, crave, Dave, deprave, engrave, enslave, fave, forgave, gave, grave, knave, lave, Maeve, misbehave, misgave, nave, outbrave, pave, rave, save, shave, shortwave, slave, they've, waive, wave Definition of stave in US English: stave nounsteɪvstāv 1A vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure. （建筑物或其他结构中的）木柱；狭木板 Example sentencesExamples Cutting staves led to the purchase of a kiln, which, in turn, opened up additional markets. Newhaus spent IR £35,000 on just elevating the site. He then had to install staves to reinforce the foundations further. One corner of the room contains tall curving birch staves that are evocative of a forest. Here there were no men training, only a few targets and a pile of wooden staves in the corner. By looking at the end grain, it was often possible to determine whether the darts were made from natural shafts or split from larger pieces of wood in the form of staves. It's like a workshop in Hades - you feel the heat from barrels set over open fires in the floor and hear the piercing din of hammers on steel as hoops are pounded onto staves. Synonyms post, pole, stick, spike, upright, support, prop, strut, stave, pale, paling, picket, pile, piling, stanchion, shaft, cane, beanpole, rod, mast 1.1 Any of the lengths of wood attached side by side to make a barrel, bucket, or other container. 桶板 Example sentencesExamples It was carried out with a stocking filled with sand or sometimes wooden staves from a cask. Close by was apparently another barrel which had collapsed as only the staves - still well preserved - remained. The wood of the stave and arrow shafts was dark with moisture. Wilcox's experience as a logger developed into another niche market: cutting staves for a barrel maker. Richard worked just about every job in that business, from harvesting logs to make the barrel staves through to coopering and trucking the water-tight barrels to fishery clients in Atlantic Canada. The adventures that he and his friends shared on the Red River in a homemade canoe made of barrel staves and grain sacks became a favorite memory. To illustrate this, Liebig imagined a barrel crafted out of staves of mismatched lengths. For three years the wine is aged in new barrels made of hand-split oak staves. The sun louvers were made of salvaged barrel staves from a nearby pickle factory. They entered the market obliquely through the production of non-agricultural products such as barrel staves that they bartered for textiles, hardware and cheap consumer goods. Experiments with brandy as well as wine, however, demonstrate the superiority of air-dried over kiln-dried wood for barrel staves. 1.2 A strong wooden stick or iron pole used as a weapon. 棍，棒，杖 Example sentencesExamples As he searched, he spotted a wooden stave laying in the dirt. Gold-covered wooden staves were used to carry The Ark Of The Covenant. Jonathan trained his crossbow on the back door while Kyli and Ben stood on either side of the door with their staves raised. He used his stave like a walking cane, swinging it before him with a tap of his boot. They fought the riot police with staves and stones. Anyone who remembered the plastic visors, the guns and staves of police guarding the Justice Department during Vietnam protests had to be struck with the civility of it all. I started to crash to the stones of the courtyard, only to find myself being supported by Gareth, who had immediately dropped his stave to catch me. The end of the room was guarded by two women in long white-gold robes, standing to attention, their ornately carved staves upright. Gabe stalked over to the weapons rack and pulled down two wooden staves, in a bad temper because his preferred sword hadn't been chosen. Every character has swords, staves or other edged weaponry, which you can perform light spin attacks or strong power strikes on opponents. In the center lie a pile of wooden swords, staves, daggers, shields. The two guards were confronted by four men in balaclavas, armed with a small samurai sword and wooden staves. They responded by putting down their staves and harpoons. The same leaders of more than 50 men who beat Peter Cavanaugh to death with wooden staves forbade anyone other than close relatives from attending the burial. Len Smith was attacked just seconds after reaching his 46th birthday and was beaten savagely with a wooden stave picked up in the beer garden of his pub in Salford. The recital of her crime too was read out as she knelt, and then the executioner stepped forward with a wooden stave and dealt a hundred blows upon her shoulder. Arms and wooden staves waved in crazy confusion above the human mass and from it projectiles - bricks, rocks, bars of iron - arced into the line of men. He could make out the glint of staves and unsheathed swords through the swirling dust. On the roadway, the supporters were shouting at the crowd to move back, staves were being swung, a few punches thrown. Vigilante groups dressed in robes and turbans, armed with staves and swords and mounted on motorbikes, patrol the city to enforce the curfew. 2British Music another term for staff (sense 4 of the noun) Example sentencesExamples A typical graph contains one or more grand staves, or piano staves, so one will likely begin with a piano template. In his Alphabet des mouvements du corps humain he placed movement symbols on a special stave while recording the floor patterns above it. 3A verse or stanza of a poem. 诗节，诗句 Synonyms stanza, strophe, stave, canto verbsteɪvstāv [with object] 1stave something inBreak something by forcing it inward or piercing it roughly. 压坏；击穿，击破 the door was staved in 门被打穿了一个洞。 Synonyms break in, smash in, put a hole in, push in, kick in, cave in, splinter, shiver, fracture 2stave something offAvert or delay something bad or dangerous. 挡开，避开；延缓 a reassuring presence can stave off a panic attack 拥有自信可以避免惊惶失态。 Example sentencesExamples Despite an environmentally hostile administration and a country preoccupied with the threat of war and terrorism, some key threats to the environment were staved off. Yet, and though it might seem unpalatable to the Rangers faithful, the truth is that the full effects of the club's trade deficit continue to be staved off in a footballing context. At the same time, utter nihilism is staved off with some incisive and poignantly human touches. But, following a shake-up of the board and some work being undertaken on the green, the axe has been staved off for the time being. The top seed staves off a break point with his second ace and clings on. Every step of the film is grounded in common logic and practicality - civilian survivors mourn their dead, band together into surrogate families, stave off the infected and turn to soldiers for protection. But we could not have staved if off any longer in this day and age - and we were one of the few clubs in the country which did not have women as full members. Its death has been staved off by the IVF freezing process. A similar move to repeal these taxes last August in Congress was staved off when President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have gradually repealed federal inheritance taxes. We have staved off other suppliers that have been threatening winding-up orders so the Inland Revenue has increased again. A Ringwood business has staved off an enforcement notice from New Forest district council at the 11th hour. They shrugged after the second Test was lost by a whimper, then spoke of relief when defeat was staved off in the third. Papua New Guinea prime minister staves off leadership challenge The narrator has achieved her distance from this idyll and its tragic end; she has spotted the fatal hubris of her fifteen-year-old self - the certainty that death can be staved off by love. While the humanitarian program in that country has successfully staved off starvation, the level of malnutrition remains high and directly contributes to the morbidity and mortality. But, largely thanks to the efforts of the ‘Save the Jags’ campaign, under whose auspices Thistle supporters rallied to raise funds, the immediate threat of closure was staved off. But at least you've staved it off for 30, 40 years so that you don't get those proportionate deadly results. Japan had hoped that the resumption of talks in September would help the countries settle the issue and stave off mounting cries on both sides for further escalation. In cults and controlling groups the crisis of admitting that everything one has believed is wrong is staved off by finding new explanations for discrepancies in the group's ideas and rules. Soybeans are high in protein and soy fiber staves off hunger. Synonyms avert, prevent, avoid, preclude, rule out, counter, forestall, nip in the bud Origin Middle English: back-formation from staves, archaic plural of staff. Current senses of the verb date from the early 17th century.
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