One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

Usage examples of stave.

It was filled not quite to the brim with a mass of what looked like thick red slime and it bubbled continuously as if aboil on some gigantic stove.

An innocent-looking piece of firewood set off a bundle of aerolite cartridges if anyone picked it up to put it in the stove.

The largest of those was taller than Alayne, with iron bands girding its dark brown staves.

Well, he killed that shoat right there, an' he got Ma to light up the stove.

There was always deer sausage on the stove, and a gumbo full of oysters, shrimp, crabmeat, chicken, Andouille sausage would brim green bubbling.

Saddam is not necessarily apocalyptic, but he will do anything to stave off his own overthrow and has absolutely no moral constraints on his actions.

Tala had wadded around the arbalest and ran his fingers almost lovingly over the wooden stock and steel bow stave, and Grumuk cackled again.

Shimoda did use medication, however, to stave off complications from potential arteriosclerosis and related diseases.

I saw the Duchess in the attic, in her atelier, lighting candles to stave off the dark.

He would slump in his chair as Aunty Em threw pots about the stove, spilling, burning, humming hymns to herself.

Thus we should profit by the heat of the stove, which was to cook our food and warm the cavern during the long days, or rather the long nights of the austral winter.

On the large stove of porcelain inlaid with copper baguettes the statue of a woman, draped to the chin, gazed motionless on the room full of life.

She loved her oversized, fire engine red stove imported from France, her Cuisinart, espresso machine, Belgian waffler, pasta maker, her Magnalite pots and pans, Henckels knives, cast-iron bakeware, microwave, and even her electric wok.

Sarah finished washing Biffin the sink and, wrapping him in a towel, gave him to Olivia to hold while she fetched his pyjamas from the stove.

So a box was placed by the stove with an old jacket in it to keep Blinky warm.