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34 words match “STAVES”

INSHAVE n.
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
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.
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. [U.S.] Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.] -- Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.] -- Lumber wa…
SCARF n.
a neckcloth. Put on your hood and scarf. Swift. With care about the banners, scarves, and staves. R. Browning.
SCORE n.
, 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. Moore (Encyc. of Music). In score (Mus.), having all the parts arranged and place…
SHAKE v. 3 definitions
ut of my company. Bunyan. To shake a cask (Naut.), to knock a cask to pieces and pack the staves. -- To shake hands, to perform the customary act of civility by clasping and moving hands, as an expression of greeting, farewell, good will, agreement, etc. -- To shake out a reef (Naut.), to untile the reef points and s…
SHOOK n. 2 definitions
A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.
STAFF n. 4 definitions
d for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike. And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal. Ex. xxxviii. 7. With forks and staves the felon to pursue. Dryden.
STAVE n. 4 definitions
written or pointed; the staff. [Obs.] Stave jointer, a machine for dressing the edges of staves.
STAVING n.
A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.
SUCCULA n.
A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.
SYSTEM n.
The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n.
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.
VYCE n.
A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it. Knight.
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