资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stave \Stave\, n. [From {Staff}, and corresponding to the pl.
   staves. See {Staff}.]
   1. 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; esp., one of the
      strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

   2. One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the
      bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.

   3. A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

            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.