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

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

Palstave :: Palstave (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age..

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

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.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

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

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

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..

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..

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

Stove :: Stove () imp. of Stave.

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

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..

Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.

Vyce :: Vyce (n.) A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.

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

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

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

Hand Staves :: Hand staves (pl. ) of Han.

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