Definition of stave

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

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Stave :: Stave (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
Stave :: 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..
Brace :: Brace (n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves..
Inshave :: Inshave (n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
Stave :: Stave (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask..
Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.
Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..
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..
Bilge :: Bilge (v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel)..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project..
Delphinic :: Delphinic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria)..
Delphinine :: Delphinine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder..
#NAME? :: -staves (pl. ) of Flagstaf.
Staves :: Stave (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
Pack :: Pack (n.) A shook of cask staves.
Jointer :: "Jointer (n.) A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves..
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..
Shake :: Shake (n.) A shook of staves and headings.
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..
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..
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