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Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.

Devastavit :: Devastavit (n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.

Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.

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

Palstave :: Palstave (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age..

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

Stave :: Staurotide (n.) Staurolite.

Stave :: Stave (n.) One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc..

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

Stave :: Stave (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Stave :: Staving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stav.

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..

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

Stave :: Stave (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project..

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

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

Stave :: 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..

Staved :: Stave (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

Staves :: Stafette (n.) An estafet.

Staves :: Stave (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

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

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

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..

Staving :: Stove () of Stav.

Staving :: Stavewood (n.) A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.

Wringstaves :: Wringstaves (pl. ) of Wringstaf.