stave in Bulgarian

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; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.

(poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

(music) The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

(transitive, usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. [from 1590s]