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
verbpast 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
  • stave in
    - ធ្វើអោយទ្រុឌចូល
  • stave off
    - ពន្យាពេលជាបណ្តោះអាសន្ន
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.
verbpast 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.