Definition of stave

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

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Staw :: Staving (n.) A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel..
Palstave :: Palstave (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age..
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..
Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..
Stavesacre :: Staves (pl.) pl. of Stave.
Shook :: Shook (v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook..
Pack :: Pack (n.) A shook of cask staves.
Stave :: Stave (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.
Staves :: Staves (n.) pl. of Staff.
Shake :: Shake (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
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..
Staves :: Stave (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
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..
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..
Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.
Stove :: Stove () imp. of Stave.
Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..
Staff :: Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
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