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.
| 1510 Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) C j, Radula, a spokeshaue or a playne. 1572 in Midl. Co. Hist. Coll. (1856) II. 363 A spokeshaue, a wimble, a hammer. 1688 Holme 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. 1794 Rigging & 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. 1837 W. B. Adams Carriages 152 The ends being tapered down one after the other with a spoke-shave till the whole amalgamate neatly. 1881 Young 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. 1602 Marston Ant. & Mel. ii. Wks. 1856 I. 129 Are you all like the spoke-shaves of the church? Have you no mawe to restitution? |
| attrib. 1846 Holtzapffel Turning II. 491 This theoretical cutter would present all the difficulties of the spoke⁓shave iron. |
Hence
ˈspokeshave v. intr., to use a spokeshave.
| 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. viii. 139 The one or two woodmen who sawed, shaped, spokeshaved on her father's premises. |