Definition of stave

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Staving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stav.

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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..
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..
Lumber :: Lumber (n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber..
Shake :: Shake (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
Palstave :: Palstave (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age..
Delphinine :: Delphinine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder..
#NAME? :: -staves (pl. ) of Flagstaf.
Staffs :: Staves (pl. ) of Staf.
Staves :: Stave (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
Bicker :: Bicker (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub..
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..
Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..
Hand Staves :: Hand staves (pl. ) of Han.
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..
Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
Cask :: Cask (n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel..
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.
Staved :: Stave (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
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..
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..
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