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单词 staved
释义 staved, ppl. a.|steɪvd|
[f. stave v. + -ed1.
In some uses prob. f. stave n.1 or staves pl. of staff n.1]
1. Furnished with a stave or staves.
a. Having a handle or a supporting stem. Obs.
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 333 My Lord paied to I. Gravele uppon vj. bylles staved, and v. unstaved iij.s. iiij.d.1599in 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 72 Waddhookes staved, twelve.1628Feltham Resolves ii. xv. 45 The same fire may be in the waxen Taper, which is in the staued Torch, but 'tis not equall either in quantity, or advancement.
b. Of a ladder: Furnished with rungs.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 635 But climing too fast up the evill staved ladder of ambition, suddenly fell.1769Ann. Reg., Nat. Hist. 101/1 You pass thirty ladders, some half broken, other not half staved.
c. Arch. Of a column: Having a round convex moulding or bead in the lower part of the fluting. (Cf. cable v. 2 and rudenture.)
1664Evelyn Freart's Archit. 130 Sometimes we find the Striges [by our Workmen call'd Flutings and Groeves] to be fill'd up with a swelling, a third part from the Base, and these we call stav'd, or Cabl'd-Columns.
2. Beaten with a stave or staff. Obs.
a1625Fletcher Knt. Malta iv. ii, Thou art a dogge, I will make thee sweare, a dog stav'd.
3. Broken; also staved in.
1699Garth Dispensary v. (1730) 53 Each Combatant his Adversary mauls, With batter'd Bed-pans, and stav'd Urinals.1727Bailey vol. II, Staved (of the Staves of a Cask), beat to Pieces.1913Daily News 4 Feb. 11 The staved-in barrels, and the lidless boxes that everywhere met the eye.
4. Forging. Thickened by hammering.
1906J. Watson Tables for Blacksm. & Forgers 15 The staved part [of an iron bar].
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