Look up: spokeshave

1. spokeshave
   a drawing knife or small transverse plane with end handles for planing convex or concave surfaces Category: Building industry
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2. Spokeshave
   Spoke'shave` noun 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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3. spokeshave
   noun a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes)
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4. Spokeshave
   • (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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5. spokeshave
   (from the article `hand tool`) The spokeshave, which may be likened to a short-bodied plane with a handle on either side allowing the tool to be pulled toward the operator, has ...
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6. Spokeshave
   A spokeshave is a carpenter's cutting tool consisting of a blade set between two handles. Spokeshaves were originally used for shaping wheel spokes, hence the name, and are now used for dressing curved edges like a plane might be used for straight edges.
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7. 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),<ref name="Joyce">http://books.google.com/books?id=AHjdVVTZ9cMC&pg=PA208&ots=WKmJIrdxCg&dq=cabriole+leg...
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