Definitions for shapers

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shapers shap·er

Spelling: [shey-per]

IPA: /ˈʃeɪ pər/

Shapers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in shapers (aehprss).

Definitions for shapers

noun

1. a person or thing that shapes.
2. 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).
3. (in woodworking) a stationary power tool driving a vertical spindle to which cutters are locked, used in joinery and for forming decorative edges.

Origin of shapers

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at shape, -er¹

Examples for shapers

Fig. 1505 represents a shaper that may be driven either by hand or by belt power.

Finally we came before a machine known in machinery as a shaper.

The religious element, as a shaper of conduct and thought, was accordingly not required.

The shaft, before it went into the shaper, was a round piece of iron.

Before describing, however, the various forms of shaper vices, it may be well to discuss points to be considered in its use.

He has no shaper or planer for the purpose, so that it must be done by hand.

He also bestows offspring, is a kind of male Aphrodite, and is the shaper of all forms human and animal.

That portion of a "self-actor mule" which guides the faller wires is termed the "shaper" or "copping motion."

He was in countless Indian legends as the shaper or the Trickster, sometimes friend, sometimes enemy.

This instrument may also come in very handy when setting tools on the planer or shaper.