Stave

Stave can refer to:

  • Staff (music), a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces used in musical notation
  • Stave church, a Medieval wooden church with post and beam construction prevalent in Norway
  • The individual wood strips that form the sides of a barrel
  • A stick
  • A stave bearing is one that uses a number of axial strips or staves, rather than circular or semi-circular shells.
  • An old English word for chapter
  • Rune-like symbols from Icelandic magic, see Icelandic magical staves.

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Last modified on 7 March 2013, at 14:57