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Spokeshave

Spokeshave \Spoke"shave`\ (sp[=o]k"sh[=a]v`), n. A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work.

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spokeshave

n. A woodworking tool used to shape and smooth rods and shafts - often for use as wheel spokes, chair legs or arrows. vb. (context transitive English) To shape or smooth with a spokeshave.

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Spokeshave

A spokeshave is a tool used to shape and smooth wooden rods and shafts - often for use as wheel spokes, chair legs (particularly complex shapes such as the cabriole leg), self bows, and arrows. It can also be used to carve canoe or kayak paddles.

Usage examples of "spokeshave".

He stooped to the new carriage and began running the spokeshave along the trail, leaving curls of new white wood to fall away.

If you let me at a drawknife and spokeshave, and a bit of hardwood for the risers, and a little glue.

He would carve his own barrels, using only a spokeshave shaper and a hammer.

Irreplaceable treasure indeed: two hammers, three chisels, his awl and his axe, a shovel blade, a spokeshave, a plane, a kettle, a longhandled metal spoon, firetongs, the cowhides that had been stretched across the bed-frames, a furl of cloth that still showed rusty bloodstains… “We couldn’t carry it all,” Orta had explained.

Decided finally that the hardware merchants had the nicest things, and bought an adze for my little nephew Gobemouche, a spokeshave for my brother Fairchild, a maul for my brother Hickathrift, and three files, a crow, two jemmies, four lock-picks and a dozen hickory axe-helves for other members of the Marchbanks tribe, as well as gift bottles of TNT for their wives.