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View synonyms for shaper
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.
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Abraham Lincoln was, by any measure, a great communicator and a skillful shaper of public opinion.
From The Daily Beast
Thus for more than half a century Mr. Tilden was a shaper and a maker of American history.
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Shapster is a feminine form of Shapper or Shaper—one who shaped or cut out cloths for garments.
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First did He shape for the children of men Heaven for a roof, the holy Shaper.
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Before their eyes he turned out an irrigation pump on an automatic shaper.
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Transcendent shapeless shaper and essential beauty is supreme, vi.
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