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Shaving   /ʃˈeɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Shaving

noun
1.
The act of removing hair with a razor.  Synonym: shave.
2.
A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something.  Synonyms: paring, sliver.
3.
The act of brushing against while passing.  Synonyms: grazing, skimming.


Shave

verb
(past shaved; past part. shaven)
1.
Remove body hair with a razor.
2.
Cut closely.  Synonym: trim.
3.
Cut the price of.  Synonym: knock off.
4.
Cut or remove with or as if with a plane.  Synonym: plane.
5.
Make shavings of or reduce to shavings.
6.
Touch the surface of lightly.



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"Shaving" Quotes from Famous Books



... thing's a turnpike road! So smooth, so level, such a mode of shaving The Earth, as scarce the eagle in the broad Air can accomplish, with his wide wings waving. Had such been cut in Phaeton's time, the god Had told his son to satisfy his craving With the York mail;—but onward as we ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... and as he looked he drew mechanically his razor across the strop; and when he had looked his fill, he turned reluctantly to the glass and shaved! All that blessed morning he had been too busy, till then, to think of shaving. ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various
... the time has come for me to follow the example of so many other people and offer to the world a few pen pictures of prominent statesmen of the day. I shall not call them "Shaving Papers from Downing Street," nor adopt the pseudonym of "The Man with the Hot Water (or the Morning Tea)," nor shall I roundly assert that I have been the private secretary, the doctor, the dentist or the washerwoman of the great men ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 • Various
... him and he then proceeded to lay out the small store of things he had brought in his bicycle bag, giving special prominence to the shaving tackle. He had just finished a summary toilet when there was a tap on the door, and, suppressing an exclamation of impatience—for he dearly wanted time and solitude for ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... their webs, so as to be less at the mercy of the wind. Beavers will erect walls, and construct houses more skilfully than our ablest architects. Chimpanzees have been known spontaneously to sit themselves down, and perform the operation of shaving." ...
— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien


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