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— English words —

• stave n. One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides…
• stave n. One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel.
• stave n. (Poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
• stave n. (Music) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
• stave n. (Poetry, rare) The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another…
• stave n. A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
• stave n. A staff or walking stick.
• stave v. (Transitive) To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
• stave v. (Transitive, usually with ’in’) To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
• stave v. (Transitive, with ’off’) To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
• stave v. (Transitive, usually with ’off’) To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
• stave v. (Intransitive, rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
• stave v. (Intransitive, old-fashioned or dialect) To walk or move rapidly.
• stave v. To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
• stave v. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
• Stave prop.n. A surname.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Czech
  • stave n. Vocative singular of stav.
  • stavě v. Masculine singular present transgressive of stavět.
  • stavě v. Masculine singular present transgressive of stavit.
  • šťávě n. Dative/locative singular of šťáva.
• Middle english
  • stave n. Alternative form of staf.
• Norwegian bokmål
  • stave v. To spell (words).

— English words, defined in French —

• stave n. Gourdin, bâton, gaule, perche, barre, barreau.
• stave n. (Musique) Portée.
• stave n. (Poésie) Strophe ou stance d’un poème ou d’une chanson.
• stave v. Casser en barres.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• stave s. Aduela.
• stave s. (Poético) estrofe.
• stave s. (Música) pentagrama.
• stave s. Bengala (para ajudar a andar).

— In French —

• Stave n.prop. (Géographie) Section de la commune de Mettet en Belgique.

122 English words from 22 English definitions

against Alternative and another a␣number␣of archaic are away bars between break break␣in breaking burst burst␣in calking calking␣iron cask cause characters cluster consonant consonant␣cluster craft cylindrical Dative delay dialect drive drive␣away driving edge etc fashioned fit five force form furnish hole horizontal Icelandic impervious including initial Intransitive iron keep keep␣off ladder lantern lantern␣wheel like lines locative lost magic Masculine metrical move Music musical narrow notes number of␣a off old old␣fashioned one parallel pieces placed plates Poetry pointed portion present push rack rapidly rare render rhymes rounds rundles rune rungs sides sigil sign singular solid something spell staff stanza stave staves stick striking strips suffer surname symbol the transgressive Transitive used usually Vocative vowel walk walking walking␣stick wheel which with wood word words written

10 English words from 9 foreign definitions

barre barres bâton chanson commune Musique para Section stance Strophe

1 foreign word from 22 English definitions

staf

21 foreign words from 9 foreign definitions

Aduela ajudar andar barreau Belgique Bengala Casser de␣la estrofe gaule Géographie Gourdin Mettet Música pentagrama perche poème Poésie Poético Portée une

35 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

staved Staver staves Staves stave␣in Stavely Stavers Stavert staved␣in Staveley Stavelys stave␣off Staveses stave-acre stave␣acre staved␣off staveless Staveleys Staverton stavesman stavesmen staves␣off stavewood stave-rhyme stave␣rhyme staverwort stavesacre stavewoods stave␣church stave-rhymed stave-rhymes stave␣rhymes stavesacres stave␣churches Staveley-in-Cartmel

52 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

distaves restavec restavek bedstaves bed-staves bowstaves colstaves palstaves restavecs restaveks tau␣staves tipstaves backstaves bass␣staves bookstaves colestaves cowlstaves cowl-staves flagstaves flag-staves flag␣staves forestaves handstaves Instaverse jackstaves packstaves pikestaves pipestaves runestaves vine-staves vine␣staves whipstaves broomstaves churn-staves cross-staves grand␣staves level␣staves wring-staves offset␣staves paddle-staves ragged␣staves treble␣staves Jeddart␣staves quarterstaves quarter-staves station␣staves cantoral␣staves Jedburgh␣staves leveling␣staves levelling␣staves dollar-cost␣averaging dollar␣cost␣averaging

9 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Gustave bowstave palstave bookstave pipestave runestave wring-stave quarter-stave Jedburgh␣stave

9 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ave 'ave ave. Ave. sta Sta STA Sta. tav

13 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ats ATs ATS at's eva Eva EVA eva' evat evats vat VAT vats

6 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

Avest. evats Sveta vates vesta Vesta

44 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

AMVETS Avents averts Avesta avoset devast Evatts gavest havest lavest ovates pavest ravest sative savate save␣it savest saveth Shevat starve staved Staver staves Staves St␣Eval stevia tarves thaves traves T-waves Vaeths valets vasten vaster Vaters ventas versta vestal Vestal vestan Vestan vestas watevs wavest

43 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

AEST AETs AEVs ATVs aves Aves east East eats Esav ESTA etas ETAs ETVs evat EVTs sate saté save Save seat Seat SEAT seta tase tavs teas TEAs vaes VAEs vase VASE vast VAST vats Veas VESA vest Vest veta vets VSAT VTAs

29 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

seave shave slave Slave Slavé Soave spave Stace stade Stade stage Stage stake Stake stale stame stane stape stare state State steve Steve STEVE stive stove suave S-wave S␣wave

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

save Save

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

starve

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