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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.

Lumber :: Lumber (n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber..

Staffs :: Staves (pl. ) of Staf.

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

Stove :: Stove () imp. of Stave.

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..

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