These are the meanings of the letters SVETA when you unscramble them.
- Stave (n.)
A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
- Stave (n.)
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; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
- Stave (n.)
One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
- Stave (n.)
The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- Stave (n.)
To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
- Stave (n.)
To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
- Stave (n.)
To furnish with staves or rundles.
- Stave (n.)
To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
- Stave (n.)
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
- Stave (n.)
To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
- Stave (v. i.)
To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
- Vesta (n.)
A wax friction match.
- Vesta (n.)
An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
- Vesta (n.)
One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.