Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A knife with a handle at each end of the blade, used with a drawing motion to shave a surface.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
drawing-knife , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun see
drawing knife .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
joiner 'stool having ablade with ahandle at each end, used toshave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; ashave ; adrawshave . - noun A tool used for the purpose of making an
incision along the path asaw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood. - verb transitive To cut or shave with a drawknife.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces
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Examples
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Likewise, Mr. Townsend's hog-skinning machinery mechanized a process that formerly had been done by hand, by a worker with a drawknife skinning a ham held in a kind of vice.
Inventor Had Relish for Hot Dog Making Stephen Miller 2011
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These are the poems of a man with eyes like a drawknife, hands like a pickpocket's hands, woven of water and logic and hunger, with no strand of love in them.
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Reduce the stave to your outline with a drawknife, rasp, and file (making sure not to cut into the growth ring atop the back of the bow).
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Secure the stave in a vise and shave off the bark and sapwood with a drawknife to expose one unbroken summer growth ring along the back (bark side; photo B).
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If you've never done woodwork like this bow project, chances are you don't have a drawknife.
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DRYING AND SHAPING Pare the green stave with a hatchet and a drawknife so that it's slightly larger than the shape of your intended design.
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With heartwoods, you must shave off the bark and white sapwood with a drawknife to reach the darker, denser wood beneath.
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Other items found were a scissors-shaped candle snuffer used to trim wick, parts of a flintlock pistol, flatware, a coat button, an ornamental andiron, and a drawknife that may be part of a set of cooper's tools listed in a 1732 inventory of the Madisons 'property.
Boyhood Home 2001
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A carving horse where the grandfather had been when they came into the yard held a split billet of ash he had been working with a drawknife.
Temple of the Winds Goodkind, Terry 1997
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The curve of the legs can be cut with a bracket saw or a drawknife, care being taken to get the edges square and smooth.
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