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stave in |
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stave something in to crush something in. (The past tense is usually stove with ships, and otherwise, staved.) The rocks on the reef staved the hull of the ship in. The angry sailor staved in the cask of rum. See also: stave How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Then he got into the nest, reared the stave in it as a mast, and hung up his shirt for a sail. I shall never forget the first time I happened to roar out a stave in the presence of noble Mehevi. I'm a going, first, to stave in that theer boat, and sink it where I would have drownded him, as I'm a living soul, if I had had one thought of what was in him |
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