spokeshave

English

The back of a spokeshave while in mid-stroke

Etymology

From spoke +‎ shave.

Noun

spokeshave (plural spokeshaves)

1. A hand tool, mainly for woodworking, used to shape and smooth rods and shafts; often used in carving wheel spokes, chair legs, or arrows.

Coordinate terms

• drawshave (“drawknife”), plane

Translations

woodworking tool

• Bulgarian: обирачка f (obiračka)
• Dutch: spaakschaaf m
• Estonian: pääsuhöövel
• Finnish: kavahöylä
• French: herminette (fr) f, wastringue (fr) f
• German: Schweifhobel m, Schabhobel m, Schinder (de) m
• Hungarian: hántológyalu (hu)
• Norman: couté à main m
• Polish: ośnik (pl) m
• Spanish: doladera (es) f
• Swedish: skavhyvel (sv) c, spockskiva c
• Tagalog: katam na halang
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: سستره (sıstra)

Verb

spokeshave (third-person singular simple present spokeshaves, present participle spokeshaving, simple past and past participle spokeshaved)

1. (transitive) To shape or smooth with a spokeshave.

Further reading

• spokeshave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia