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

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..

Shake :: Shake (n.) A shook of staves and headings.

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..

Staffs :: Staves (pl. ) of Staf.

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..

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..

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..

Hand Staves :: Hand staves (pl. ) of Han.

Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.

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..

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..

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

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..

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

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

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

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..

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

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

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