1 A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine. 2  A bird, the greylag.
Washington, D.C. Coordinates. The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is a 2,300,000-square-foot (210,000 m2) convention center located in Washington, D.C., USA, owned and operated by the city's convention arm, Events DC.
The center was originally named the Gaylord Potomac Resort & Convention Center; the name was changed in the planning stage. The hotel contains 2,000 guest rooms, 478,000 square feet (44,400 m 2) of meeting space, seven restaurants, and a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) spa.It employs 2,000 people.he convention center hosted the 2011 Republican National Committee Winter Meeting, at which the 2011 Republican National Committee chairmanship election took place.