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

Staffs :: Staves (pl. ) of Staf.

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

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.

Chine :: Chine (v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

Stave :: Stave (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project..

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

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..

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

Staving :: Stavewood (n.) A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.

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..

Hand Staves :: Hand staves (pl. ) of Han.

Shook :: Shook (n.) A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form..

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..

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

Staw :: Staving (n.) A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel..

Shake :: Shake (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.

Staff :: Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave..

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..

Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.

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