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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

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..

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

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..

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.

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

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

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..

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..

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

Staffs :: Staves (pl. ) of Staf.

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

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..

Vyce :: Vyce (n.) A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.

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