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Stave :: Stave (n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Chine :: Chine (v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

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

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..

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

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

Stave :: Stave (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project..

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

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