Definition of stave

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Stave (n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off..

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Hand Staves :: Hand staves (pl. ) of Han.
Stave :: Stave (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off..
Stavesacre :: Staves (pl.) pl. of Stave.
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..
Stove :: Stove () imp. of Stave.
Palstave :: Palstave (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age..
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..
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..
Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..
Verse :: Verse (n.) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses..
Bouge :: Bouge (v. t.) To stave in; to bilge.
Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.
Pack :: Pack (n.) A shook of cask staves.
Delphinine :: Delphinine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder..
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..
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..
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..
Stave :: Stave (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
Staved :: Stave (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
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