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Stave church — A stave church is a medieval wooden church with a post and beam construction related to timber framing. The wall frames are filled with vertical planks. The load bearing posts ( stafr in Old Norse) have lent their name to the building technique.… … Wikipedia
Stave River — Geobox River name = Stave River native name = other name = other name1 = image size = image caption = country = Canada country1 = state = British Columbia state1 = region = region1 = district = district1 = city = Mission, British Columbia city1 … Wikipedia
stave — /steɪv / (say stayv) noun 1. one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood which form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel. 2. a stick, rod, pole, or the like. 3. a rung of a ladder, chair, etc. 4. Prosody a. a verse or stanza of a poem… …
Stave bearing — A stave bearing is a simple journal bearing where a shaft rotates in a bearing housing. Rather than the usual arrangement where the fixed part of the bearing surrounds most of the circumference of the shaft in one or two pieces, a stave bearing… … Wikipedia
stave — n 1. slat, stay, lath, rib, board; staff, crook, walking stick, alpenstock, pikestaff, cane; stick, branch, club, cudgel; rod, wand, baton; pole, shaft, beam, upright, standard; pale, paling, stake, post, picket. v 2. break in, crush, put a hole… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
at staff's end — phrasal or at stave s end archaic : at arm s length … Useful english dictionary
Urnes Stave Church — Basic information Location Ornes farm near Lustrafjorden, Luster municipality, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway Geographic coordinates … Wikipedia
Urnes stave church — Infobox religious building building name = Urnes stave church infobox width = image size = caption = map type = map size = map caption = location = Ornes farm near Lustrafjorden, Luster municipality, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway geo =… … Wikipedia
Vang stave church — (Świątynia Wang, also Vang stavkirke) is a stave church transferred from Vang in Norway and re erected in 1842 in the outskirts of Krummhübel in Germany, now Karpacz in the Karkonosze mountains of Poland.The church is a four post single nave… … Wikipedia
Skaga stave church — is a twice rebuilt medieval stave church in Tiveden, Karlsborg Municipality, Sweden. The original chapel was built in the 1130s during the Christianization of Scandinavia, but it was demolished in 1826 to combat persistent pagan practices in the… … Wikipedia
