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

Score :: Score (n.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts..

Staves :: Staves (n.) pl. of Staff.

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

Hand Staves :: Hand staves (pl. ) of Han.

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..

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

Shook :: Shook (v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook..

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

Stave :: Stave (n.) One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc..

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..

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..

Staw :: Staving (n.) A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel..

Accolade :: Accolade (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.

System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..

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..

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

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..

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..

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