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stave-acre en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A medicinal herb, Staphis agria.
    • Th' infectious scab, arising from extremes Of want or surfeit, is by water cur'd Of lime, or sodden stave-acre, or oil Dispersive of Norwegian tar, renown'd By virtuous Berkeley.= 1810, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper:
    • Stonehenge recommends an ointment made of 2 oz. finely powdered stave-acre to lb. lard; it should be well rubbed in several times a day. 1920, John Boyd Cramsie, Management and Diseases of Sheep in Australia, page 10:
  2. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of starve-acre.
    • Thus, any weeds or rubbish of lesser bulk than the grain will go through the sieve ; and wild oats, shepherd's needles, stave-acre, with all other light weeds and sprouted grains, may be taken off the top of the corn in the sieve ; 1818, The Farmer's Magazine - Volume 19: