Stave
Definitions
- A surname.
- 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.
- The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
- A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
- A staff or walking stick.
Equivalents
Examples
“For the Cherubims ſpread foorth their wings ouer the place⟳ of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the ſtaues thereof, aboue.”
“Let⟳ us chaunt a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.”
“Ley, in his work⟳ on the Metrical Forms of Hebrew Poetry, 1866, has taken too little notice⟳ of these frequently occurring alliteration staves; Lagarde communicated to me (8th Sept. 1846) his view⟳ of the stave-rhyme in the Book[…]”
“[The] stave that binds the two halves of the line together the on-verse must be classified as D in spite of the f-stave . . stave-rhyme (OED s.v. Stave sb.)”
“... consisting only of the two staves, folches . . . fehta. […] Line 63 contains the two-stave rhyme, aerist ... asckim; the suggested reduplicative rhyme [...] is technically doubtful according to the standards we have⟳[…]”
“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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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