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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..

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

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

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..

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

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc..

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

Staves :: Stave (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

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

Bouge :: Bouge (v. t.) To stave in; to bilge.

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

Palstave :: Palstave (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age..

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

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

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.

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

Can Hook :: Can hook () A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves..

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

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

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

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