Burst or force (a hole) into something.
1 The fellow answered with a curse and lifted his axe to stave in the door.
2 The man chanted a little stave in a low voice, and the door flew open.
3 This," she said, placing the stave in his hands, "is your next occupation."
4 Until this time the melody has been a slow and dirge-like stave in the minor key.
5 He had the scarred hands of a glazier and carried a wooden stave in his hand.
6 The collision had been so violent as to stave in some of the planks of her hull.
7 Place one stave in a bench vise and carefully clean off the bark with a draw knife.
8 Now put your stave in the shade.
9 I don't imagine you're worried that these gentlemen will stave in walls that shells from your frigate couldn't breach?
10 The same afternoon he saw some twenty or thirty men attempting to stave in a hardware store, evidently after pistols.
11 The boat likewise, on being touched, might roll up, and with her mast stave in the fragile side of the canoe.
12 One day, as Bran sat outside in a pool of warm sunlight, Angharad appeared with an ash-wood stave in her hand.
13 Then he got into the nest, reared the stave in it as a mast, and hung up his shirt for a sail.
14 Talk about breaking his jaw - I 'd stave in his bread-pan, I'd-therewas a whole Camembert in there, I'll go and look for it.
15 I suppose we can work with just about anything, as long as you don't stave in my skull or anything like that.
16 The boatswain brought down his fist with a resounding whack on the scuttle butt, threatening to stave in the top of the barrel.
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