drawknife

English

Alternative forms

• drawing knife, draw knife

Etymology

From draw +‎ knife.

Noun

drawknife (plural drawknives)

1. 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; a drawshave.

   Synonym: drawing knife

2. A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.

Translations

blade with handle in each end

• Finnish: kuorimarauta (fi)

Verb

drawknife (third-person singular simple present drawknifes, present participle drawknifing, simple past and past participle drawknifed)

1. (transitive) To cut or shave with a drawknife.

Translations

to cut or shave with a drawknife

• Finnish: kuoria raudalla

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “drawknife”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)