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De - Pt| English Dictionary: staving | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for staving | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Stave \Stave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Staved}or {Stove}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Staving}.] [From {Stave}, n., or {Staff}, n.] 1. 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. 2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off. The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance. --South. 3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project. And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously. --Tennyson. 4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask. All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys. 5. To furnish with staves or rundles. --Knolles. 6. 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. {To stave and tail}, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Staving \Stav"ing\, n. A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel. | |
