bedding vs stave

bedding

noun
  • A structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined planes horizontally or parallel to the land surface. 

  • The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc. 

  • The temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter. 

  • The textiles associated with the bed, as well as the mattress, bedframe, or bed base (such as box spring). 

  • Any material used by or provided to animals to lie on. 

stave

noun
  • 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. 

  • The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme. 

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

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

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

  • A staff or walking stick. 

  • A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. 

verb
  • To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron. 

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

  • To push, or keep off, as with a staff. 

  • To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. 

  • To delay by force or craft; to drive away. 

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

How often have the words bedding and stave occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )