The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
The stomach.
The main curved portion of a knife blade.
The abdomen, especially a fat one.
The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
The womb.
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
To cause to swell out; to fill.
To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
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.
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.