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

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..

Bouge :: Bouge (v. t.) To stave in; to bilge.

Staff :: Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

Wringstaves :: Wringstaves (pl. ) of Wringstaf.

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..

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

Piggin :: Piggin (n.) A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper..

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

Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.

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

Delphinine :: Delphinine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder..

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

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

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