- USA Today Crossword
- February 23 2023
- ___ off (keep at bay)
___ off (keep at bay)
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| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | | 99% | STAVE | ___ off (keep at bay) | USA Today |
Definition
| • | One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc. |
| • | One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc. |
| • | A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. |
| • | The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff. |
| • | To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat. |
| • | To push, as with a staff; -- with off. |
| • | To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project. |
| • | To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask. |
| • | To furnish with staves or rundles. |
| • | To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run. |
| • | To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments. |
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