stave
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8.1
- noun
- /steɪv/
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- This winery utilizes oak staves in a stainless fermentation and aging to bring elements of oak without the oxidative quality of a full barrel.
- barrel staves
- wooden stave
- a stave church
Examples
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Wolfram took his hunting knife and made staves for us out of a couple of hickory saplings.
Fiction book (2002) -
They traded their arms for hoes and wooden staves, and they traded their freedom and wound up slaves.
Blog text (18) -
After a moment, she added, as if to herself, "I'm bound to him as surely as a stave is bound to the barrel."
Fiction book (1991) -
Dachas were on both sides of them, behind stave fences.
Fiction book (1995) -
The staves would be highly effective in the street fighting Lefarn envisioned, since the police had only short truncheons, but the calisthenics the young men practiced with them seemed innocent enough.
Fiction book (2001) -
A man at the edge of the circle begins to speak, his voice at first too quiet to be heard by many, though soon everyone has stopped talking to listen to his tale of a sailor, drunk on wine, who murdered another man with a barrel stave on a Manhattan wharf, and who, fleeing the authorities, came here, where he disguised himself as a simple lighthouse keeper.
Fiction book (1999) -
Lefarn watched approvingly and arranged for his corps of wagon drivers to begin bringing loads of staves, bows, and arrows into the city disguised as loads of wood.
Fiction book (2001) -
In the 1540s and 1550s, entries for individual renters generally specify the number of balcken (literally, planks or staves), probably a reference to the number of stalls rented.
Academic text (1990) -
The carpenter selected the best hickory planks to create the staves for the barrel.
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Each stave was carefully shaped to fit together and create a sturdy structure.
Synonyms
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9.9
A thin piece of wood that forms the side of a barrel or bucket
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Stave for a long, narrow piece of wood comes from an old word staff meaning 'stick' or 'support', so a stave is literally a thin 'stick' used to build and hold things like barrels or chairs.