stave vs white cane

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. 

white cane

noun
  • A white stick carried by a blind or visually impaired person, indicating their disability to others and allowing them to scan the surroundings for obstacles etc. 

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