STAVE

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stave I. substantiv

1. doagă (de butoi).

2. stanţă, strofă; verset.

3. (muz.) portativ.

4. şipcă; stinghie.

stave II. verb tranzitiv

1. past şi part. trec. stove

2. a desfunda; a sparge (un butoi).

3. a lăsa să curgă (vinul etc.).

4. a pune doage Ia.

5. to stave off a opri, a îngrădi, a restrânge; a preveni.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He took up a great black bow, as he spoke, and sitting down upon the ground he placed his two feet on either end of the stave.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To her astonishment (and it was something that she never ceased from relating to her dying day), she saw Martin Eden seize an iron from the stove and throw a fancy shirt-waist on the ironing-board.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

There is a stove.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She gave me a funny little sky parlor—all she had, but there is a stove in it, and a nice table in a sunny window, so I can sit here and write whenever I like.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

“I would break your stave across my knee first,” cried John, laying his great hand upon the bow.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“A six-foot stave throws a twelve-foot shadow,” he muttered.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Many a night have I heard that song, both in the old war-time and after in the days of the White Company, when Black Simon of Norwich would lead the stave, and four hundred of the best bowmen that ever drew string would come roaring in upon the chorus.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How runs the old stave?

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I went in—after making every possible noise in the kitchen short of pushing over the stove—but I don't believe they heard a sound.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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