A name applied to various tools adapted for scraping, paring, or removing the surface of material in very thin slices; a drawing or paring knife…

A plumbers' tool consisting of a blade, commonly triangular, set transversely in a handle, used for scraping metal preparatory to soldering.

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…

(a) a paring tool, spec. a shoemakers' knife; (b) a razor.

A shaving instrument or tool. Now esp. a small electrical appliance with a set of blades working against a perforated guard.

A knife or other instrument for paring. Now frequently with modifying word, as apple, vegetable parer, etc.

(see quot.).

A tool used by coopers for shaving or planing the inner face of staves.

A knife used for shaping the staves of a barrel.

A carpenter's shave designed for shaping and smoothing concave surfaces, typically used in making chair seats.

(see quot. 1966).