Definition of stave

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Stave (n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc..

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Staw :: Staving (n.) A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel..
Shake :: Shake (n.) A shook of staves and headings.
Vyce :: Vyce (n.) A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.
Stave :: Stave (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask..
Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle.
Staff :: Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave..
#NAME? :: -staves (pl. ) of Flagstaf.
Staved :: Stave (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
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..
Chine :: Chine (v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
Chine :: Chine (n.) The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave..
Staff :: Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
Bouge :: Bouge (v. t.) To stave in; to bilge.
Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.
Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.
Pack :: Pack (n.) A shook of cask staves.
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..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off..
Jointer :: "Jointer (n.) A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves..
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