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Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.

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

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

Wringstaves :: Wringstaves (pl. ) of Wringstaf.

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..

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

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

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..

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..

Chine :: Chine (v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

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

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..

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

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..

Quarterstaves :: Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaf.

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

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..

Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.

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

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