Definition of shave

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Shave (v. t.) A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave.

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Router :: Router (n.) A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes..
Shave :: Shave (v. t.) A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving.
Shaver :: Shaver (n.) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
Shave :: Shave (v. t.) To strip; to plunder; to fleece.
Pare :: Pare (v. t.) To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies..
Moslings :: Moslings (n. pl.) Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins.
Tonsured :: Tonsured (a.) Having the tonsure; shaven; shorn; clipped; hence, bald..
Shaver :: Shaver (n.) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.
Shave :: Shave (v. t.) To make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the surface, or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair from with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off the beard or hair of; as, to shave the face or the crown of the head; he shaved himself..
Spokesmen :: Spokeshave (n.) A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work..
Crown :: Crown (n.) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure..
Shave :: Shave (v. i.) To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat..
Drawknife :: Drawknife (n.) A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave..
Shaving :: Shaving (n.) The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor..
Shave :: Shave (v. t.) To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices.
Shave :: Shave (v. t.) The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave..
Shave :: Shave (v. t.) An exorbitant discount on a note.
Unrazored :: Unrazored (a.) Not shaven.
Tonsure :: Tonsure (n.) The shaven corona, or crown, which priests wear as a mark of their order and of their rank..
Shaved :: Shaved (p. p.) of Shav.
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