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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..

Wringstaves :: Wringstaves (pl. ) of Wringstaf.

Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.

Bouge :: Bouge (v. t.) To stave in; to bilge.

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..

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..

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

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..

Bilge :: Bilge (v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel)..

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

Accolade :: Accolade (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.

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

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

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

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..

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.

Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.

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

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

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

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