Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drawknife of a design originally used for shaping spokes, now used for making rounded edges.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ring with cutting edge attached to a handle, used in certain operations within the cavity of the nose.
- noun A wheelwrights' and carpenters' tool, having a plane-bit between two handles, formerly used in shaping wagon-spokes, but now in woodwork of every kind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
woodworking tool used to shape and smooth rods and shafts - often for use as wheel spokes, chair legs or arrows. - verb transitive To shape or smooth with a spokeshave.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Litten's carpenter friend Max John Hollingworth, looked up from his spokeshave with perhaps one too many knowing political apercus; and Litten's "weary" catalogue of his father's objections to the new Weimar republic – "To him, it's all atonal music, flat roofs, Bauhaus chairs, the rumba, Otto Dix, negro jazz, Jewish self-assertion" – could have done with the lumps taken out of it.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:26:00 PM PST spokeshave says...
A Question on Traveling Mattes Hans Perk 2009
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He leaves the steamed components hanging up for a year to dry and season thoroughly, turns the legs on his lathe, hollows out the seats with an adze and a spokeshave, then assembles the chairs.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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He leaves the steamed components hanging up for a year to dry and season thoroughly, turns the legs on his lathe, hollows out the seats with an adze and a spokeshave, then assembles the chairs.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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You would only need a spokeshave, and simple scratch stock, and couple of hand planes.
The Cult kludge 2008
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You would only need a spokeshave, and simple scratch stock, and couple of hand planes.
Archive 2008-11-01 kludge 2008
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At one point I had the bow by both ends and it probably looked as though I was using a spokeshave on the strings.
drones badger 2005
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He worked with a large spokeshave in a wood so hard that it grated and rang like metal.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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Nonnus used his knife for everything from skinning game to large projects for which the locals would have chosen an axe, a billhook, or a spokeshave.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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Final shaping is done with a spokeshave (3), if available, and a wood rasp (see page 6).
Chapter 4 1989
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