| 单词 | round shave |
| 释义 | > as lemmasround shave round shave n. Woodworking a tool with a curved blade, often two-handled, used for shaping wood and for making incisions in tree trunks in order to collect sap; cf. spokeshave n. ΚΠ 1654 in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1916) I. 198 2 Round shaves & an old adds, 3s. 1759 G. Washington Invoice 20 Sept. in G. Washington Papers (1988) VI. 354 1 Ditto [sc. cooper's] Round Shave. 1868 Gardener's Monthly Feb. 61/2 At the commencement of the next season, the hatchet is laid aside for the ‘round shave’. 1901 J. B. Avirett Old Plantation viii. 67 Each man is furnished with a tool called a roundshave, which is of finely tempered steel, in the shape of a small knife, round and bent like your forefingers curved from the second joint. 2000 D. S. Cecelski Historian's Coast 34/2 Even turpentine orchards as large as the Rich Lands eventually succumbed to ax and roundshave. < as lemmas |
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