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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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..

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

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

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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