A bundle of thin sticks, typically made of wood, sometimes bond in such a way that binding can be moved so that it varies the tightness of the binding.
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.