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Frow :: Frow (n.) A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower..

Cask :: Cask (n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel..

Lag :: Lag (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine..

#NAME? :: -staves (pl. ) of Flagstaf.

Shook :: Shook (v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook..

Staffs :: Staves (pl. ) of Staf.

Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..

Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc..

Stavesacre :: Staves (pl.) pl. of Stave.

Jointer :: "Jointer (n.) A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves..

Pack :: Pack (n.) A shook of cask staves.

Wringstaves :: Wringstaves (pl. ) of Wringstaf.

Stavewood :: Stavesacre (n.) A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish..

Delphinic :: Delphinic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria)..

Vyce :: Vyce (n.) A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.

Bicker :: Bicker (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub..

Inshave :: Inshave (n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

Stave :: 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..

System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..

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