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

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..

Piggin :: Piggin (n.) A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper..

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

Shake :: Shake (n.) A shook of staves and headings.

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

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..

Jointer :: "Jointer (n.) A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves..

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

Stave :: Stave (n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat..

Vyce :: Vyce (n.) A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.

Pack :: Pack (n.) A shook of cask staves.

Stave :: Stave (n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc..

Stave :: Stave (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

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

Delphinine :: Delphinine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder..

Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.

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

Tub :: Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes..

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