Definition of stave

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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..

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Jointer :: "Jointer (n.) A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask..
Stave :: 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..
Staved :: Stave (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
Shake :: Shake (n.) A shook of staves and headings.
Staff :: Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave..
Pack :: Pack (n.) A shook of cask staves.
Bilge :: Bilge (v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel)..
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..
Tub :: Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes..
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..
Piggin :: Piggin (n.) A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.
#NAME? :: -staves (pl. ) of Flagstaf.
Stave :: Stave (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
Can Hook :: Can hook () A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves..
Staw :: Staving (n.) A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel..
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..
Lumber :: Lumber (n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber..
Stove :: Stove () imp. of Stave.
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