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Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.

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..

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

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

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 furnish with staves or rundles.

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..

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

Bicker :: Bicker (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub..

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

Inshave :: Inshave (n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

Chine :: Chine (n.) The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave..

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..

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

Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..

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..

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

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..

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

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