stave in

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Verb	1.	stave in - break in the staves (of); "stave in a cask" break in - break so as to fall inward; "He broke in the door"
	2.	stave in - burst or force (a hole) into something stave burst, break open, split - come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure; "The bubble burst"

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Then he got into the nest, reared the stave in it as a mast, and hung up his shirt for a sail.

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I shall never forget the first time I happened to roar out a stave in the presence of noble Mehevi.

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I'm a going, first, to stave in that theer boat, and sink it where I would have drownded him, as I'm a living soul, if I had had one thought of what was in him

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