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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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.
Stave :: Stave (n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off..
Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.
Staff :: Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave..
Hand Staves :: Hand staves (pl. ) of Han.
Pack :: Pack (n.) A shook of cask staves.
Shake :: Shake (n.) A shook of staves and headings.
Wringstaves :: Wringstaves (pl. ) of Wringstaf.
Stave :: Stave (n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.
Palstave :: Palstave (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age..
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..
Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..
Shake :: Shake (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
Bilge :: Bilge (v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel)..
Chine :: Chine (v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
Inshave :: Inshave (n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
Stavesacre :: Staves (pl.) pl. of Stave.
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.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask..
Shook :: Shook (v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook..
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