Definitions for Shaper

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Shaper shap·er

Spelling: [shey-per]

IPA: /ˈʃeɪ pər/

Shaper is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in Shaper (aehprs).

Definitions for Shaper

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 Shaper

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

Examples for Shaper

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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