Definition of stave

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

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Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.
Stave :: Stave (n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off..
Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..
System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..
Palstave :: Palstave (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age..
Staved :: Stave (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
Bilge :: Bilge (v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel)..
Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
Bicker :: Bicker (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub..
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..
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 :: Staved (imp. & p. p.) of Stav.
Jointer :: "Jointer (n.) A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves..
Staves :: Stave (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
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..
Bouge :: Bouge (v. t.) To stave in; to bilge.
Shake :: Shake (n.) A shook of staves and headings.
Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.
Delphinine :: Delphinine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder..
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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