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race-knife [f. race v.3] A cutting tool with a bent lip used for marking on timber, etc.; a race-tool. Also ellipt.
1875in Knight Dict. Mech. 1923G. Sturt Wheelwright's Shop vi. 30 The various points for cross-cutting the tree were scratched with a ‘race’—a sort of knife with point turned back and sharpened at the bend for this especial purpose. 1964H. Hodges Artifacts vii. 109 A row of wedge-pits or triangular slots was cut with an axe-shaped tool (race, gad or jad). 1969E. H. Pinto Treen 401 The saddler's race or race knife,..used for marking leather, is the same tool that is also used by coopers, lumbermen, and carpenters to mark or scribe logs or timber sections, or to register tallies. |