Plural of stave

Forms of stave

Staves in a sentence

• This may seem sparse and incomplete, but is reminiscent of the Old Norse stave rhyme technique in which one avoided two alliterating staves in one dipod – which the poets of that time considered superfluous.2005, Studia musicologica Norvegica
• Ceiling joists were sometimes grooved to receive riven staves or pales that secured mud-and-straw walling.1997, Gabrielle M. Lanier, Bernard L. Herman, Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic, page 90. From the entry pale
• The "Old English Rune Poem" contains a futhorc of twenty-eight staves.1989, Edred Thorsson, A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, page 23. From the entry rune poem
• The iron-bound bamboo staves, known as lâtees, with which most disputes among rival zemindars were traditionally settled.1973, JG Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur. From the entry lathi
• A bracket is an additional vertically aligned symbol joining staves.2015, Meinhard Müller, “Music Representations”, in Fundamentals of Music Processing: Audio, Analysis, Algorithms, Applications, Cham…. From the entry system

Meaning of stave

1. noun 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.
2. noun One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel.
3. noun A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

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Questions about the plural of stave

What is the plural of stave?

The plural of stave is staves.

Is stave countable?

Stave is a countable noun.