Clues for the word "STAVE"
We've had 44 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 168 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on November 01, 2025.
Definition of stave
- 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.
- n. - One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
- n. - A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
- n. - The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- n. - To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
- n. - To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
- n. - To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
- n. - To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
- n. - To furnish with staves or rundles.
- 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.
- v. i. - To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
Referring Clues
- Barrel piece
- Ward (off)
- Forestall, with "off"
- Hold (off)
- Barrel part
- Song verse
- Prevent, with "off"
- Cask component
- Fend (off)
- Barrel rib
- Cask slat
- Avoid, with "off"
- Barrel strip
- Barrel bracer
- Part of a barrel
- Barrel component
- Avert, with "off"
- Barrel support
- Avert (with "off")
- Strip of the barrel
- Barrel board
- Avert, with "off"
- Avert (with "off")
- ___ off (forestall)
- Fight (off)
- Barrel slat
- Repel, with "off"
- Cooper's piece
- Wooden pail part
- Part of a cask's side
- On which music is written
- Two ways to make musical lines
- Strip of wood
- Strip of a barrel
- Rung
- Tun part
- ___ off (keep from happening)
- ___ off (prevent)
- Rod
- Word used in place of "chapter" in "A Christmas Carol"
- Wine barrel strip
- Lines on which music is written
- ___ off (keep at bay)
- Strip of wood from which a bow is carved
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - November 01, 2025
- New York Times - September 20, 2025
- Mirror Mini - July 26, 2025
- Daily American - January 12, 2025
- LA Times - December 14, 2024
- Daily American - November 20, 2024
- LA Times - November 19, 2024
- New York Times - September 09, 2024
- Family Time - September 02, 2024
- LA Times - March 17, 2024
- Daily American - January 07, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 16, 2023
- USA Today - December 01, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 26, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 20, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 23, 2023
- USA Today - February 23, 2023
- Daily American - January 12, 2023
- Daily American - November 20, 2022
- New York Times - September 25, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - August 12, 2022
- LA Times - August 07, 2022
- Daily American - January 07, 2018
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 13, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - December 05, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 25, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 20, 2017
- Jonesin - October 17, 2017
- Netword - October 09, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 16, 2017
- And in 138 more crossword puzzles...