Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. · To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. · To push, or keep off, as with a staff. · To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
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; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc. · One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel · A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. · The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
Back-formation from staves, the plural of staff.
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- Root classification mention*stebʰ-ine-pro
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