A narrow strip forming the side of a barrel or tub

• Any similar slat used to line or build a vessel

In music, the set of five horizontal lines for notes

• Also called the staff, especially in American English

To avert or delay something unwanted

• To keep something harmful at bay

To smash or break a hole in

• To crush inward, as a hull or door

A stanza of verse

• An individual metrical section of a poem

A staff or walking stick