dial. and Sc. In 6 stavir. [? f. STAVE sb.1]

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  1.  A rung (of a ladder). Also, ‘one of the bars of a hay-rack’ (N. W. Linc. Gloss.); ‘a stake for a hedge, etc.’ (Sheffield Gloss.).

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1534.  Eng. Ch. Furniture (Peacock, 1866), 190. Item in the whete chamber a ladder of viij stavirs.

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1866.  Brogden, Prov. Lincs., Stavers, the staves or rounds of a ladder.

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  2.  A stave (of a cask).

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1891.  ‘Hugh Haliburton’ (J. L. Robertson), Ochil Idylls, 89. ’Maist like an auld cask dung to stavers.

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