Staved

ppl. a. [f. STAVE v. + -ED¹.

  In some uses prob. f. STAVE sb.¹ or staves pl. of STAFF sb.¹]

  1.  Furnished with a stave or staves. † a. Having a handle or a supporting stem. Obs.

1481–90.  Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.), 333. My Lord paied to I. Gravele uppon vj. bylles staved, and v. unstaved iij.s. iiij.d.

1599.  in 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 72. Wadd-hookes staved, twelve.

1628.  Feltham, 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.

1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 635. But climing too fast up the evill staved ladder of ambition, suddenly fell.

1769.  Ann. Reg., Nat. Hist., 101/1. You pass thirty ladders, some ball broken, others not half staved.

  c.  Arch. Of a column: Having a round convex molding or bead in the lower part of the fluting. (Cf. CABLE v. 2 and RUDENTURE.)

1664.  Evelyn, 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.

a. 1625.  Fletcher, Knt. Malta, IV. ii. Thou art a dogge, I will make thee sweare, a dog stav’d.

  3.  Broken; also staved in.

1699.  Garth, Dispensary, V. (1730), 53. Each Combatant his Adversary mauls, With batter’d Bed-pans, and stav’d Urinals.

1727.  Bailey, vol. II., Staved (of the Staves of a Cask), beat to Pieces.

1913.  Daily News, 4 Feb., 11. The staved-in barrels, and the lidless boxes that everywhere met the eye.

  4.  Forging. Thickened by hammering.

1906.  J. Watson, Tables for Blacksm. & Forgers, 15. The staved part [of an iron bar].