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.

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

To push, as with a staff; – with off.

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

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

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.

A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

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