Definition of stave

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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..

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Stavesacre :: Staves (pl.) pl. of Stave.
Accolade :: Accolade (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.
Wringstaves :: Wringstaves (pl. ) of Wringstaf.
Brace :: Brace (n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves..
Lumber :: Lumber (n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber..
Pack :: Pack (n.) A shook of cask staves.
Piggin :: Piggin (n.) A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper..
Staved :: Stave (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
Staves :: Stave (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
Shook :: Shook (v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook..
Verse :: Verse (n.) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses..
Tub :: Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes..
Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..
Stave :: Stave (n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc..
Inshave :: Inshave (n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
Staffs :: Staves (pl. ) of Staf.
Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.
Shake :: Shake (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.
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..
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