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stave
advocate, boarding, cord, firewood, jock, octave, quarterstaff, sextet, spoke, strophe, two-by-four
Definition
n.
(music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
Last update: September 29, 2015
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Police use
stave
s during riots.
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Well, that's one way to
stave
off passion.
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Booted the twain and
stave
d.
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Stave it off awhile.
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"I'm going a
stave
higher still."'
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The blow was struck by Gavryl, who had picked up an oaken
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, and with it gave Ivan a terrible blow on the head.
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They hoped to
stave
off the Mongols in the same way as they had met the Kitan and the JuchĂȘn.
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The boy saw the danger, but too late to
stave
it off.
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"And watch where you're going if you don't want to
stave
that boat in."'
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But elsewhere the Confederates did what they could to
stave
the Federals off from advantageous ground on that day and the next.
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These two great soldiers then did what could be done to
stave
off Grant and Sherman.
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