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What is the noun for stave?

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stave
  1. 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.
  2. One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
  3. (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
  4. (music) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
  5. A staff or walking stick.
  6. A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “The officer approached the assailant who was coming out of the house with a wooden stave.”
      “Place the end of one of the lines under the top stave of the ladder, and slip it over the end or top of the ladder side.”
      “Let us chaunt a passing stave, in honour of that hero brave.”
staving
  1. A casing or lining of staves, especially one encircling a water wheel.
stavings
  1. plural of staving
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