Stave
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Stave can refer to:
- Staff (music)Staff (music)In standard Western musical notation, the staff, or stave, is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch—or, in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments. Appropriate music symbols, depending upon the intended effect,...
, a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces used in musical notation - Stave churchStave churchA stave church is a medieval wooden church with a post and beam construction related to timber framing. The wall frames are filled with vertical planks. The load-bearing posts have lent their name to the building technique...
, a Medieval wooden church with post and beam construction prevalent in Norway - The individual wood strips that form the sides of a barrelBarrelA barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of vertical wooden staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. Traditionally, the barrel was a standard size of measure referring to a set capacity or weight of a given commodity. A small barrel is called a keg.For example, a...
- A stick
- A stave bearingStave bearingA stave bearing is a simple journal bearing where a shaft rotates in a bearing housing. Rather than the usual arrangement where the fixed part of the bearing surrounds most of the circumference of the shaft in one or two pieces, a stave bearing uses a large number of axial staves to support the shaft...
is one that uses a number of axial strips or staves, rather than circular or semi-circular shells. - An old English word for chapterChapter (books)A chapter is one of the main divisions of a piece of writing of relative length, such as a book. Chapters can be numbered in the case of such writings as law code or they can be titled. For example, the first chapters of some well-known novels are titled:*"The Boy Who Lived" – Harry Potter...
- Rune-like symbols from icelandic magic, see Icelandic magical stavesIcelandic magical stavesIcelandic magical staves are symbols credited with magical effect preserved in various grimoires dating from the 17th century and later...
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