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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
  • A staff or walking stick
  • 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 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
  • The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To striking against something.
  • transitive To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with ''in''.
  • transitive To delay by force; to drive away. Often with ''off''.
  • transitive To push, as with a staff. With ''off''.

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