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Definition of Staved
1. stave [v] - See also: stave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Staved
Literary usage of Staved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Patternmaking: A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Patterns by Joseph Atkinson Shelly (1920)
"These three methods are known, respectively, as (i) staved or lagged, ...
staved or Lagged Work. — staved or lagged work consists of fastening narrow pieces ..."
2. A History of the English Poor Law: In Connection with the State of the by George Nicholls, Thomas Mackay (1904)
"... to advance either policy—The Poor Law, if it has staved off revolution, has
also retarded civilisation—The Poor Law a ..."
3. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery and Their Allied Sciences by New Sydenham Society (1875)
"... convulsions could be staved off for nearly half an hour in one that was made
to breathe oxygen gas, whilst the other which breathed ordinary air had ..."
4. The World Displayed, Or, A Collection of Voyages and Travels by Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson (1815)
"... trades with the other islands, has his boat staved to pieces, and enters on
board an English vessel, THE same evening Mr. Roberts reached St. Philip's, ..."
5. The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most by Henry Troth Coates (1878)
"... juat as a bulky sugar-puncheon, All ready staved, like a great sun shone
Glorious scarce an inch before me, Just as methought it said, Come, bore me! ..."
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