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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.

Stavesacre :: Staves (pl.) pl. of Stave.

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

Stove :: Stove () imp. of Stave.

Barrel :: Barrel (n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verse :: Verse (n.) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses..

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

Lag :: Lag (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine..

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..

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

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