Stave

1. n. The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
2. n. 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.
3. n. One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
4. n. A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
5. n. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
6. n. To furnish with staves or rundles.
7. n. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.