Stave is valid Scrabble Word

Is stave a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is stave valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for STAVE in dictionary:

VERB:

to drive or thrust away
break something by forcing it inwards or piercing it roughly
avert or delay something bad or dangerous
To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
burst or force (a hole) into something

NOUN:

a vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure.
any of the lengths of wood fixed side by side to make a barrel, bucket, or other container.
a strong wooden stick or iron pole used as a weapon.
a set of five parallel lines on any one or between any adjacent two of which a note is written to indicate its pitch.
a verse or stanza of a poem.

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.
One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
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.
To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
To furnish with staves or rundles.
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.
(music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
a crosspiece between the legs of a chair

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

same as staff

Words related to STAVE

staff11 staved10 staves9 staving11 stove8

Words that contain STAVE

staved10 staves9 distaves12 palstave13 palstaves14 tipstaves14 cowlstaves18 flagstaves17 handstaves17 pikestaves19 stavesacre15 jackstaves26 stavesacres16 quarterstaves25

How to use STAVE in a sentence

And to stave off that day he will do almost anything.
A boy passes my window whistling shrill a stave of a popular song.
The stave plank broke and he went down and never come up.
I doubt if they will be able to stave it off to the end of the long struggle which is still before us if the militarism of Germany is really to be arrested and discredited.
The stock of food began to fail, and no help was left to stave off hunger.
They hoped to stave off the Mongols in the same way as they had met the Kitan and the Juchen.
Chester noticed with surprise that each man was armed, not only with a stave, but with a revolver.
In a corner of the barn, I found my old chestnut club, a hickory stave, well coiled with lead at the top.
And so you preserve your independence and feel rested and stave off for a little while the evil day.
Walking slowly across the platform may give you time to grip yourself, compose your thoughts, and stave off disaster.

But the thing is doomed, and will go to the ground, in spite of every effort that can be made to stave the ruin off.
He decided to pick and choose from his information, feeding them scraps to stave off the inevitable.
The Turks under pressure from the Powers were striving to smooth matters down sufficiently to stave off the final crash that drew ever nearer.
When the uttermost stress of pecuniary embarrassment would come upon him, they would pay something to stave off the immediate evil.
It had been a difficult and thankless task during the past month to stave off pressing creditors.
STAVE FOUR THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached.
The stave was instantly raised from the horizontal, and he passed and went up the steps in the wake of the usher.
A stave from the pile struck White on the forehead, and cut him severely.
What could she do to stave the matter off? She knew Cantemir would hardly be able to place Cedric in the Tower before another week.
By making good use of favourable ground, or by constructing substantial works, the smaller force may indeed stave off defeat and gain time.
She did not name an immediate day, because it would be well, she thought, to stave off the evil hour.
Provisions were brought from the village of Careca to the people left behind at Darien, for the first consideration was to stave off the famine that was imminent.
They want to stave off our question until after the presidential campaign.
If they make a hit now, it will only stave off bankruptcy for another six months, sooner or later they will have to go.
It was claimed for these shoes, and with good reason, that they were not so slippery as the barrel stave shoe, for they permitted the foot to sink slightly into the snow.
The hammock was a very simple affair, made by drilling a 1-inch hole in each end of each barrel stave.
Jorrocks, he would try his hand at a stave or two made in honour of the immortal Surrey.

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