stave

vpon paine of death to bring it out and to ſtaue it

to stave in a cask

The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.

We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger.

But Donald would not hear of that proposal at all, assuring the Prince that it was impossible for them to return to the land again, because the squall was against them, and that if they should steer for the rock the boat would undoubtedly stave to pieces and all of them behoved to be drowned, for there was no [fol. 284.] possibility of saving any one life amongst them upon such a dangerous rock, where the sea was dashing with the utmost violence.

He turned and blundered out of the house, stumbling over a chair and trying a wrong door on the way, and went staving down the street as if afraid to look behind him.

All the […]wine in the city hath been staved.

to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run