spokeshave

1. 1.

   a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes)

   Broaderplane

Other forms of spokeshave

plural

spokeshaves·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spokeshave

What does spokeshave mean?

spokeshave means "a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes)".

How many syllables are in spokeshave?

spokeshave has 3 syllables: spo-ke-shave. The stress falls on "spo".

Is spokeshave a common word?

spokeshave is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.