Usually means: Broken or damaged by impact.
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  1. staved: Merriam-Webster
  2. staved: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. staved: Collins English Dictionary
  4. staved: Vocabulary.com
  5. staved: Wordnik
  6. staved: Wiktionary
  7. staved: Dictionary.com
  8. Staved: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Staved: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. staved: FreeDictionary.org
  11. staved: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. staved: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Stave)

noun:  One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
noun:  One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
noun:  (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
noun:  (music) The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
noun:  (poetry, rare) The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
noun:  A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
noun:  A staff or walking stick.
verb:  (transitive) To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
verb:  (transitive, usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
verb:  (transitive, with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
verb:  (transitive, usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
verb:  (intransitive, rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
verb:  (intransitive, dated or dialect) To walk or move rapidly.
verb:  To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
verb:  To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
noun:  A surname.
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