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Definition: SPOKESHAVE |
SPOKESHAVENoun1. A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work. |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A drawing knife or small transverse plane with end handles for planing convex or concave surfaces. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SPOKESHAVE |
| Specialty definitions using "SPOKESHAVE": hat-block bench hand, HAT-BLOCK MAKER ♦ scraper, hand, SHAPER, HAND. (references) |
| "SPOKESHAVE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "SPOKESHAVE" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spokeshave | 14 |
record spokeshave | 2 |
lie nielsen spokeshave | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SPOKESHAVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسحج التسنيم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | крив рукан (drawing-knife, shave), кацарско сечиво. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 辐刀. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hoblík (jack plane, plane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rettekniv (spoke shave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stokschaaf (spoke shave), spookschaaf (spoke shave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | wastringue (spoke shave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schabhobel (spoke shave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλάνη κατασκευής κατά μήκος συνδέσεων (spoke shave), δίχειρος πλάνη (spoke shave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hántológyalu (jack plane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | raschietto (scraper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skynn hayrn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | okeshavespay formão (chisel, mortice chisel, mortise chisel). (various references) криволинейный струг. (various references) vlačilica. (various references) raedera (disc scraper, jointer, scraper, skim coulter, skimmer). (various references) กบไสไม้. (various references) parmaklık rendesi, kürekçi rendesi. (various references) криволінійний струг. (various references) cái b o khum. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SPOKESHAVE": spokeshaves. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-k-o-p-s-s-v" | |
-3 letters: apheses, shakoes, sheaves, spahees. | |
-4 letters: eposes, evokes, heaves, kvases, paseos, pashes, passee, peases, pekoes, phases, shakes, shakos, shapes, shaves, sheave, shoves, soaves, spahee, speaks, spokes. | |
-5 letters: akees, apeek, apses, ashes, askos, eases, eaves, ephas, evoke, hakes, hasps, haves, heaps, heave, hokes, hopes, hoses, kaphs, keeps, kophs, kvass, oases, oaves, okehs, opahs, paseo, pases. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-k-o-p-s-s-v" | |
+1 letter: spokeshaves. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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