Let us chant a passing stave In honor of that hero brave.
Wordsworth.
4. (Mus.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which
musical notes are written or pointed; the staff. [Obs.]
Stave jointer, a machine for dressing the edges of staves.
Stave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Staved (?) or Stove (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n.
Staving.] [From Stave, n., or Staff, n.] 1. 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.