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

Wringstaves :: Wringstaves (pl. ) of Wringstaf.

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

Stave :: Stave (n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.

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..

Bicker :: Bicker (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.

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

Staving :: Stavewood (n.) A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.

Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..

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..

Delphinic :: Delphinic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria)..

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

Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.

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