spokeshave

American  

[spohk-sheyv] / ˈspoʊkˌʃeɪv /

noun

1. a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, spoke, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.

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spokeshave British  

/ ˈspəʊkˌʃeɪv /

noun

1. a small plane with two handles, one on each side of its blade, used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces, such as spokes

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Etymology

Origin of spokeshave

First recorded in 1500–10; spoke ² + shave

Example Sentences

Then there are the tools: nippers, a steam box, the spokeshave, and all manner of planes, punches and rivets.

From New York Times • May 31, 2019

This study exercises ability in the mastery of elliptical lines, and in the use of the spokeshave in Exercises 30 and 31.

From Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes by Sutcliffe, John D.

Allowance should be made for this and the surplus removed with a spokeshave.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William

With a plane or spokeshave round these up until they taper from 1 in. diameter at bottom to little less than 0.5 in. at top.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu

Saw to that line without obliterating it, finishing with spokeshave, plane, chisel, and file.

From Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes by Sutcliffe, John D.