1. One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
   "The cooper carefully fitted each stave to form the barrel";
   - lag
    
2. (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
   "She struggled to read the notes on the stave";
   - staff
    
3. A crosspiece between the legs of a chair
   "The barrel was held together by metal staves";
   - rung, round

1. Furnish with staves
   "stave a ladder"
    
2. Burst or force (a hole) into something
   "The impact staved in the ship's hull"; "They staved a hole in the barrel to drain it";
   - stave in

Derived forms: staved, staving, staves

Type of: break open, burst, crosspiece, equip, fit, fit out, musical notation, outfit, slat, spline, split

Part of: barrel, cask, feeding chair, folding chair, highchair, rocker, rocking chair, side chair, straight chair

Encyclopedia: Stave, Krupanj