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

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

#NAME? :: -staves (pl. ) of Flagstaf.

Stove :: Staved (imp. & p. p.) of Stav.

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

System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..

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..

Stove :: Stove () imp. of Stave.

Verse :: Verse (n.) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

Score :: Score (n.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts..

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