stave a ladder. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He was singing a stave from the "Enniskillen Dragoon" when I came up with him. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference
If you're buying a stave from a dealer, you'll save on drying time (4-6 weeks if cutting your own). From Wordnik.com. [Make a Homemade (and Deadly) Bow in Five Easy Steps] Reference
Each chapter is called a stave, or stanza of the carol. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
Origin: A stave is a stick of wood, from the plural of staff, staves. From Wordnik.com. [Origin of Familiar Phrases] Reference
So I would start interspersing other books in between the chapters to kind of stave off that terrible moment when the book ended. From Wordnik.com. [The Joys Of Reading Many Books At Once] Reference
If I never leave you biddies till my stave is a bar I’d be tempted rigidly to become a passionate father. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
8. Music is written on a set of horizontal lines called a "stave " or "staff". From Wordnik.com. [January 2009] Reference
Rice exports have been banned to stave off food shortages. From Wordnik.com. [Burma's Men Of Gold] Reference
At home, he was drinking hard to stave off the nightmares. From Wordnik.com. [Forgotten Heroes] Reference
That said, there is still time to stave off a major famine. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger In The Horn] Reference
He's been feverishly negotiating with lenders to stave off default. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowers Are Out In the Cold] Reference
But can it stave off economic disaster in the long, cold winter ahead?. From Wordnik.com. [And Now What ?] Reference
Carry healthy snacks like dried fruit to stave off junk-food temptations. From Wordnik.com. [HEALTH: BATTLE OF THE BULGE] Reference
Israel now needs him to stave off the challenge of radical fundamentalism. From Wordnik.com. [Mideast: Missing A Historic Deadline] Reference
What are the underlying genes that preserve vitality and stave off disease?. From Wordnik.com. [Can We Slow Aging?] Reference
Ma had to stave off efforts by some officials to put up an office building instead. From Wordnik.com. [Jiang Speaks Out] Reference
News staffers aren't protesting: the money could stave off a wage freeze or layoffs. From Wordnik.com. [Mcnews Mcads] Reference
We can now rest assured that hormones alone won't stave off "age with all its terrors.". From Wordnik.com. [The End Of The Age Of Estrogen] Reference
To stave off defeat, Mullah Omar cut several power-sharing deals with regional warlords. From Wordnik.com. ['Please Don't Forget Us'] Reference
It's similarly unclear how long current government policies can stave off the inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [INTO THE WOODS] Reference
They covered their faces with handkerchiefs to stave off the stench of cremation and rotting corpses. From Wordnik.com. ['Our Houses Have Become Tombs'] Reference
Supplements do not protect joints; even popular products like glucosamine do not stave off arthritis. From Wordnik.com. [Big-Belly Blues] Reference
But even those who did not stave off North Korean hordes or race into burning buildings leave us awestruck. From Wordnik.com. [Who Has What It Takes To Be A Hero?] Reference
Like many people who are scrambling for ways to stave off climate disaster, Klaus Lackner is thinking trees. From Wordnik.com. [Curbing Emissions Won't Be Enough] Reference
He is a serious politician, a fine debater, and he can probably stave off an electoral embarrassment in 2006. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Of Tory England] Reference
Founded in 2000, the NSSF represents Beijing's strategic reserve, formed to help stave off a looming pension crisis. From Wordnik.com. [China Lets Loose] Reference
Oh, and he's also trying to stave off a banking crisis that could send markets from New York to London into a frenzy. From Wordnik.com. [Mighty Fall] Reference
Alzheimer's experts say the extra stimulation of a day center seems to help stave off some mental deterioration in patients. From Wordnik.com. [A Home Away From Home] Reference
"People borrow to stave off the day of reckoning, and then when credit tightens, the bankruptcy numbers go up," says Lawless. From Wordnik.com. [The Bankruptcy Boom] Reference
Some of Kerry's brave talk may be therapy, an effort to stave off the emotional plunge that has to follow such public rejection. From Wordnik.com. ['I'M GOING TO LEARN'] Reference
Geared to maximize output, they couldn't stave off Hollywood, which took as much as 80 percent of the Korean market in the 1990s. From Wordnik.com. [Blockbuster Nation] Reference
Cooper says that some have been known to enter into a month-to-month lease in order to stave off permanent-residency requirements. From Wordnik.com. [Long Commute] Reference
Estrada, just 28 months into his six-year term, has the numbers in Congress to stave off the impeachment complaint lodged last week. From Wordnik.com. [Back To The Streets] Reference
But Marshall advised Truman to keep his distance, warning that the Jews could never stave off Arab legions who far outnumbered them. From Wordnik.com. [A Case of Courage] Reference
Since the 1950s, however, a little-known technique called growth-suppression therapy has been used to stave off future growth medically. From Wordnik.com. [Tall Girls] Reference
Normally, going out with the girls and looking out for them is fine, he said — he does his best to stave off any undesirable characters. From Wordnik.com. [The Audacity Of Dope] Reference
Inevitably, in its efforts to stave off terror, America will turn to a familiar friend, one it has long regarded as a panacea: technology. From Wordnik.com. [Technology: A High-Tech Home Front] Reference
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