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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Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..
System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..
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..
Delphinine :: Delphinine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder..
Staffs :: Staves (pl. ) of Staf.
Staving :: Stavewood (n.) A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.
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..
Delphinic :: Delphinic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria)..
Verse :: Verse (n.) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses..
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 delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project..
Bicker :: Bicker (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub..
Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..
#NAME? :: -staves (pl. ) of Flagstaf.
Inshave :: Inshave (n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
Stave :: Stave (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
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..
Stavesacre :: Staves (pl.) pl. of Stave.
Staff :: Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave..
Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
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