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

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..

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

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..

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

Staffs :: Staves (pl. ) of Staf.

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..

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

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

Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.

Stave :: Stave (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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