stave

noun

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, a pail, etc.
One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
A staff or walking stick.
A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.

verb

To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
(usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
to stave in a cask
(with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
(usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.
(rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
To walk or move rapidly.
To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run

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