staffer vs stave

staffer

noun
  • A member of a staff. 

stave

noun
  • A staff or walking stick. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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 staffer and stave occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )