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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.

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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. The Adventures of Peter Pan by Barrie, James Matthew View in context I shall never forget the first time I happened to roar out a stave in the presence of noble Mehevi. Typee by Melville, Herman View in context 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 David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context			start out with start over start something start up start up with start with start with a bang start with a clean slate starter startle out of starve starve for starve for some food starve into starve out of some place stash stash away stash in state state of mind state of the art state-of-the-art station station at stave stave in stave off stay stay abreast of stay after stay at stay at some place stay back stay behind stay by stay clear of stay down stay for stay in stay off stay on stay on the sidelines stay on top of stay out stay over stay put stay the course stay to stay under stay up stay up late			staurolitic Stauromedusae stauroplegia Stauroporine Stauropus fagi Stauroscope Staurosporae Staurothylax Staurotide Staurotide Staurozoa Stav Stavanger Stavanger Stavanger AmatørSymfoniOrkester Stavanger Arkitektforening Stavanger Ju Jitsu Klubb Stavanger Lille Hotel Stavanger Linux User Group Stavanger Lufthavn - Sola, Norway - Sola Stavanger, Norway Stavanger, Norway stave stave stave stave stave Stave church Stave churches stave core stave in Stave jointer stave off stave off stave off stave off stave rhyme stave rhymes stave wood Stave-church Stavechurch staved staved staved staved staved lumber core Stavelot Stavelot Abbey staves staves staves staves staves Staves Acre staves of life stavesacre stavesacres Stavewood STAVF staving staving

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