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Stave [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A thin narrow piece of timber, of which casks are made. Staves make a considerable articles of export from New England to the West Indies.

2. A staff; a metrical portion; a part of a psalm appointed to be sung in churches.

3. In music, the five horizontal and parallel lines on which the notes of tunes are written or printed; the staff, as it is now more generally written.

4. To stave and tail, to part dogs by interposing a staff and by pulling the tail.

Stave [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To fight with staves. [Not in use.]

Stave [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense stove or staved; participle passive id.

2. To break a hole in; to break; to burst; primarily, to thrust through with a staff; as, to stave a cask.

3. To push as with a staff; with off.

4. The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.

5. To delay; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

6. To pour out; to suffer to be lost by breaking the cask.

7. All the wine in the city has been staved.

8. To furnish with staves or rundles. [Not in use.]

Stave [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

2. One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.

3. A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

4. The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

5. To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.

6. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.

7. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

8. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

9. To furnish with staves or rundles.

10. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.

Stave [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

Staved [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Stave

Staves [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1828

of staff, when applied to a stick, is pronounced with a as in ask, the Italian sound.

Staves [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

pl. of Staff.

Staves [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. of Staff

2. pl. of Stave.

Stavesacre [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish.

Stavewood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.

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Exodus 25:13

And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

And make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Exodus 25:14

And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, in order to carry it.

Exodus 25:15

The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed.

Exodus 25:27

Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.

The rings are to be close to the rim, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry the table.

Exodus 25:28

And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.

Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.

Exodus 27:6

And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.

Exodus 27:7

And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.

The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.

Exodus 30:4

And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.

And make two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.

Exodus 30:5

And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Exodus 35:12

The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,

the ark with its poles and mercy seat, and the veil to shield it;

Exodus 35:13

The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,

the table with its poles, all its utensils, and the Bread of the Presence;

Exodus 35:15

And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,

the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;

Exodus 35:16

The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,

the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;

Exodus 37:4

And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

Then he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

Exodus 37:5

And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry it.

Exodus 37:14

Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.

The rings were placed close to the rim, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry the table.

Exodus 37:15

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.

He made the poles of acacia wood for carrying the table and overlaid them with gold.

Exodus 37:27

And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.

He made two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.

Exodus 37:28

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

Exodus 38:5

And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.

At the four corners of the bronze grate he cast four rings as holders for the poles.