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; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.

(usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.

“to stave in a cask”

(with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.