Stave
noun — Plural: Staves
- 1.
- (one of the curved strips of wood forming the side of a barrel or tub, a staff in music, a stanza) ក្ដារសំបកធុងឈើ
verb — past tense: Stove/Staved/Stoved ; past participle: Stove/Staved/Stoved ; present participle: Staving ; 3rd person singular present Staves
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to puncture or smash break, stave off) stave in (a wall) ធ្វើអោយទ្រុឌចូល
Example: Dang staved in the side of the boat with one blow of the axes, to stave off defeat, stave off a blow.stave off (hunger) ធ្វើមិនអោយមានឡើង
ENGLISH MEANING
noun — Plural: Staves
- 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.
verb — past tense: Stove/Staved/Stoved ; past participle: Stove/Staved/Stoved ; present participle: Staving ; 3rd person singular present Staves
- 1.
- 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.
- 2.
- To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
- 3.
- To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
- 4.
- To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
- 5.
- To furnish with staves or rundles.
- 6.
- 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.
- 7.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.