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

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

Stavewood :: Stavesacre (n.) A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish..

Stave :: Stave (n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run..

Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.

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..

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

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

Wringstaves :: Wringstaves (pl. ) of Wringstaf.

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

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..

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..

Staff :: Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave..

Stave :: Stave (n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off..

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..

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

Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.

Bilge :: Bilge (v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel)..

Stave :: Stave (n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.

Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.

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