English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of stave

stave

/noun/ छंद; लंबी लाठी; लकड़ी की सीढ़ी का डंडा; पटरी;

Synonym verse; rail;

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English Dictionary:

1. Stave

[n.]

- 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.
- One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
- To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
- To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
- To furnish with staves or rundles.
- 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.

2. Stave

[v. i.]

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