shave-hook
[f. shave v. + hook n.1]
A plumbers' tool consisting of a blade, commonly triangular, set transversely in a handle, used for scraping metal preparatory to soldering.
| 1432 Muniments Magd. Coll. Oxf. (1882) 11 Item, j led⁓knyff;..j shaff-hoke. 1485 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 40 Shaffe hokes xviij. 1486 Ibid. 46 Shave hokes..xviij. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 307/1 He beareth Sable, a Cross Staff in Fess, between a Plummers shave Hook, and a Leaden Plummet, proper. 1843 Holtzapffel Turning I. 445 The parts intended to receive the solder are scraped quite clean with the shave-hook. |