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Stave can refer to:

  • Stave (wood), one of the individual strips of wood that form the sides of a barrel
  • Stave Run, a river in Virginia, United States
  • Staff (music), a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces used in musical notation
  • A less common term for a poetic stanza
  • Stave church, a Medieval wooden church with post and beam construction prevalent in Norway
  • 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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