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View synonyms for shaper

shaper

[ shey-per ]

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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shaper1

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; shape, -er 1

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Example Sentences

Abraham Lincoln was, by any measure, a great communicator and a skillful shaper of public opinion.

Thus for more than half a century Mr. Tilden was a shaper and a maker of American history.

Shapster is a feminine form of Shapper or Shaper—one who shaped or cut out cloths for garments.

First did He shape for the children of men Heaven for a roof, the holy Shaper.

Before their eyes he turned out an irrigation pump on an automatic shaper.

Transcendent shapeless shaper and essential beauty is supreme, vi.

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