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

Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.

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

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 push, as with a staff; -- with off..

Inshave :: Inshave (n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

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

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.

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

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..

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

Staves :: Stave (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.

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

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.) 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..

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..

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..

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