Stave can refer to:
- Staff (music), a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces used in musical notation
- Stave church, a Medieval wooden church with post and beam construction prevalent in Norway
- The individual wood strips that form the sides of a barrel
- 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.
Famous quotes containing the word stave:
“Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Come a stove boat and a stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)