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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..

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Delphinic :: Delphinic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria)..

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..

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..

Wringstaves :: Wringstaves (pl. ) of Wringstaf.

#NAME? :: -staves (pl. ) of Flagstaf.

Stave :: Stave (n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat..

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..

Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

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

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..

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