| 单词 | stave |
| 释义 | Word Frequency stave(steɪv) noun 1. any one of a number of long strips of wood joined together to form a barrel, bucket, boat hull, etc 2. any of various bars, slats, or rods, usually of wood, such as a rung of a ladder or a crosspiece bracing the legs of a chair 3. any stick, staff, etc 4. a stanza or verse of a poem 5. music a. British an individual group of five lines and four spaces used in staff notation b. another word for staff1 (sense 9) verbWord forms: staves, staving, staved or stove 6. (often foll by in) to break or crush (the staves of a boat, barrel, etc) or (of the staves of a boat) to be broken orcrushed 7. (transitive; usually foll by in) to burst or force (a hole in something) 8. (transitive) to provide (a ladder, chair, etc) with a stave or staves 9. (transitive) Scottish to sprain (a finger, toe, etc) Word origin C14: back formation from staves, plural of staff1 |
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