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Bicker :: Bicker (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub..

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

Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.

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

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

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

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

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

Staved :: Stave (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

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

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

Stave :: Stave (n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat..

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..

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc..

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

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

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.

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

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