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Forestall vs Stave - What's the difference?

forestall | stave |

As verbs the difference between forestall and stave

is that forestall is while stave is to break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst often with in .

As a noun stave is

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; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

forestall

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) forstal, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete, or, historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
  • Something situated or placed in front.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
  • Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
  • To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
  • In French, an aspired h forestalls elision.
  • (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
  • To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
  • * Milton
  • What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid?
  • * 1919 ,
  • She insisted on doing her share of the offices needful to the sick. She arranged his bed so that it was possible to change the sheet without disturbing him. She washed him. She did not speak to him much, but she was quick to forestall his wants.
  • To deprive (with of ).
  • * Shakespeare
  • All the better; may / This night forestall him of the coming day!
  • To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * forestaller * forestalment * forestallment

    stave

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
  • One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
  • (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
  • * Wordsworth
  • Let us chant a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.
  • (label) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
  • A staff or walking stick.
  • Verb

  • To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with in .
  • to stave in a cask
  • * 1851 ,
  • Be careful in the hunt, ye mates. Don’t stave the boats needlessly, ye harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent within the year.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1914 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Mucker , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=…for the jagged butt of the fallen mast was dashing against the ship's side with such vicious blows that it seemed but a matter of seconds ere it would stave a hole in her. }}
  • To push, as with a staff. With off .
  • * South
  • The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.
  • To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off .
  • to stave off the execution of a project
  • * Tennyson
  • And answered with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously.
  • To burst in pieces by striking against something.
  • To walk or move rapidly.
  • To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
  • * Sandys
  • All the wine in the city has been staved .
  • To furnish with staves or rundles.
  • (Knolles)
  • To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
  • to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run

    Derived terms

    * stave in * stave off

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