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单词 spokeshave
释义 spokeshave, n.|ˈspəʊkʃeɪv|
Also 7– spoke-shave.
[f. spoke n. +shave n.1 Hence WFlem. spokschaaf.]
A form of drawing-knife or shave used for shaping and finishing spokes; a carpenter's tool having the blade or plane-bit set between two handles placed lengthwise and used for planing curved work; a transverse plane.
1510Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) C j, Radula, a spokeshaue or a playne.1572in Midl. Co. Hist. Coll. (1856) II. 363 A spokeshaue, a wimble, a hammer.1688Holme Armoury iii. 317/2 A Spoke-shave, is an Iron with a sharp edge set in a piece of Wood with two handles after the manner of a Plain.1794Rigging & Seamanship 152 Spoke⁓shave,..is a piece of steel, 4 or more inches long, and one inch ½ broad; sharp at one edge as a knife.1837W. B. Adams Carriages 152 The ends being tapered down one after the other with a spoke-shave till the whole amalgamate neatly.1881Young Ev. Man his own Mechanic §250. 93 The spokeshave and the drawing-knife are the tools that are comprised in the second division of paring tools.
fig.1602Marston Ant. & Mel. ii. Wks. 1856 I. 129 Are you all like the spoke-shaves of the church? Have you no mawe to restitution?
attrib.1846Holtzapffel Turning II. 491 This theoretical cutter would present all the difficulties of the spoke⁓shave iron.
Hence ˈspokeshave v. intr., to use a spokeshave.
1887T. Hardy Woodlanders II. viii. 139 The one or two woodmen who sawed, shaped, spokeshaved on her father's premises.
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