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staving 音标拼音: [st'evɪŋ] 强 强 Stave \ Stave\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Staved} ( st[= a] vd) or { Stove} ( st[= o] v); 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off. [ 1913 Webster] The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project. [ 1913 Webster] And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask. [ 1913 Webster] All the wine in the city has been staved. -- Sandys. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To furnish with staves or rundles. -- Knolles. [ 1913 Webster] 6. 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. [ 1913 Webster] { To stave and tail}, in bear baiting, ( to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; ( to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. -- Nares. [ 1913 Webster]
Staving \ Stav" ing\ ( st[= a] v"[ i^] ng), n. A casing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel. [ 1913 Webster]
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