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), self bows, and arrows. It can also be used to carve canoe paddles. ==Modern== Spokeshaves can be made from flat-bottom, concave, or convex soles, depending on the type of job to ...
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plane or knife used to round spokes
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• (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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(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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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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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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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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