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

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..

Shook :: Shook (n.) A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form..

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

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

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

Wringstaves :: Wringstaves (pl. ) of Wringstaf.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

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

Stavesacre :: Staves (pl.) pl. of Stave.

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

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