sb. Also 7– spoke-shave. [f. SPOKE sb. + SHAVE sb.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. R. 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. Spokeshave,… is a piece of steel, 4 or more inches long, and one inch 1/2 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 spokeshave iron.
Hence Spokeshave 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.
