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Piggin :: Piggin (n.) A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper..

Shake :: Shake (n.) A shook of staves and headings.

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

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

Stave :: Stave (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask..

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

Staves :: Stave (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

Staff :: Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.

Barrel :: Barrel (n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads..

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..

Bilge :: Bilge (v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel)..

Stave :: Stave (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

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

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

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..

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..

Staves :: Staves (n.) pl. of Staff.

Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.

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