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Answer for the clue "Performing a manly chore ", 7 letters:
shaving

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Word definitions for shaving in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material. vb. (present participle of shave English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shaving \Shav"ing\, n. The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor. That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument. ``Shaving ...

Usage examples of shaving.

I whom fate selecteth for the shaving of Shagpat, and till now it was a beguilement, all emptiness.

They buttoned on pleated shirts, experimented with bow ties, and thought about when they were a boy and a young father and Randy had put shaving cream on his face and shaved with a bladeless razor, while his dad stood beside him and shaved with a real one.

A light scent of shaving soap and brilliantine came to the Inspector, followed by house smells of tea and a fry.

In the bathroom he carefully read the direction for using brushless shaving cream.

I carried it into the bathroom, took out a razor and a tube of brushless shaving cream, and hoped the blade would still cut whiskers.

Shaving a few minutes off my ice time from here until the Playoffs is acceptable.

He was bare-chested, sharpening his shaving knife on a stone, and he shrugged when he saw me notice the woven braid.

I left him shaving and went outside into the new sunshine where Agravain was sharpening a boar spear.

She waits for the shavings to catch before adding a shovelful of stove coal.

The vase had miraculously survived, unchipped, uncracked, for two centuries, and now all she could do was to pray and trust to cedar shavings that it would remain intact a few months more, through storms and war on the long voyage to England.

Steaming water now rose from the battered wash tin that Matt had used to effect the unvocal portion of his morning concert, and it was this water that the men used for shaving.

Spoon and Dirty Sock, she all ashiver, he irritated by a piece of wood shaving that had caught in his threads, perched on the ledge before the grate.

Many Dwarfs escaped in the great battles and lived on, shaving their beards and wearing highheeled shoes and pretending to be men.

He dipped a finger into my bowl of bloodroot shavings and dotted it thoughtfully on his blotter, leaving a chain of red fingerprints.

The Bostonian was stripped to the waist and had his chin and cheeks lathered with shaving soap plundered from a captured artillery limber.