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

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.

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 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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..

Stove :: Stove () imp. of Stave.

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

Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.

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..

Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.

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

Stove :: Staved (imp. & p. p.) of Stav.

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

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