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shaper
[ shey-per ]
noun
- a person or thing that shapes.
- a machine tool for forming flat surfaces, consisting of a frame, usually horizontal, on which the work is held while a cutting tool moves along it with a reciprocating motion. Compare planer ( def 2 ).
- (in woodworking) a stationary power tool driving a vertical spindle to which cutters are locked, used in joinery and for forming decorative edges.
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Despite the fact that the first massive wave of baby boomers were becoming teenagers—the age when most women began to purchase figure shapers— girdle sales started to fall.
As a biographer who has covered the shapers of technological revolutions, I see in Musk many of the traits of earlier innovators.
Harry Knight, coaching director at surf coaching resort Surf Simply, told me a story about the famed surfer and board shaper Donald Takayama.
Abraham Lincoln was, by any measure, a great communicator and a skillful shaper of public opinion.
Thus for more than half a century Mr. Tilden was a shaper and a maker of American history.
Shapster is a feminine form of Shapper or Shaper—one who shaped or cut out cloths for garments.
First did He shape for the children of men Heaven for a roof, the holy Shaper.
Before their eyes he turned out an irrigation pump on an automatic shaper.
Transcendent shapeless shaper and essential beauty is supreme, vi.
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