Stave vs Bilge - What's the difference?
stave | bilge |
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
(label) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
A staff or walking stick.
To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with in .
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To push, as with a staff. With off .
* South
To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off .
* Tennyson
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
To furnish with staves or rundles.
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
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(nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
(nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull.
(uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge, the bilge water.
(slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
(nautical) To spring a leak in the bilge.
To bulge or swell.
(nautical) To break open the bilge(s) of.
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.As a verb stave
is to break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst often with in .As a proper noun bilge is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Let us chant a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.
Verb
- to stave in a cask
- 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.
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- The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.
- to stave off the execution of a project
- And answered with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously.
- All the wine in the city has been staved .
- (Knolles)
- to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run