Stave

Stave

A verse, stanza or a metrical portion of a poem.

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stave

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A verse or stanza of a poem or song, especially the alliterative sound in a line of verse. Also, the set of spaced horizontal lines on which music is written; staff, score.

stave

Literature; Poetry

A verse, stanza or a metrical portion of a poem.

staving

Language; Dictionaries

A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.

stave

Language; Dictionaries

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 ...

stave

Construction; Bridge

One of the boards joined laterally to form a barrel or hollow cylinder. Pieces of wrought iron welded together as a basis for making shafts. To swell up the end of a tube.

stave jointer

Professional careers; Occupational titles

A professional who tends machine that smooths, bevels, and tapers edges of wooden barrel staves. Responsibilities include: * Positions stave against guide on machine. * Presses ...

alliterative metre

Literature; Poetry

The distinctive verse form of old germanic poetry, including old english.

amoebean verse

Literature; Poetry

A poetic form in which two characters chant alternate lines, couplets, or stanzas, in competition or debate with one another.

anapaest

Literature; Poetry

A metrical foot made up of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word 'interrupt'.

anxiety of influence

Literature; Poetry

In the unusual view of literary history offered by the critic Harold Bloom, a poet's sense of the crushing weight of poetic tradition which he has to resist and challenge in order ...