Definition of stave

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

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Bicker :: Bicker (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub..
Wringstaves :: Wringstaves (pl. ) of Wringstaf.
System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..
Chine :: Chine (v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
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..
Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle.
Staff :: Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
Bilge :: Bilge (v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel)..
Piggin :: Piggin (n.) A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.
Stave :: Stave (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project..
Shake :: Shake (n.) A shook of staves and headings.
Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..
Inshave :: Inshave (n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.
Stave :: Stave (n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc..
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..
#NAME? :: -staves (pl. ) of Flagstaf.
Palstave :: Palstave (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask..
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