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noun

Shaper n.

One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. "The secret of those old shapers died with them."

That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically;

(a)

(Metal Working) A kind of planer in which the tool, instead of the work, receives a reciprocating motion, usually from a crank.

(b)

(Wood Working) A machine with a vertically revolving cutter projecting above a flat table top, for cutting irregular outlines, moldings, etc.

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Etymology of 'Shaper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shaper" Quotes from Famous Books

... fa[der] almyghty shaper of heuen & erthe. And in Ihesu cryste his oonly sone our lorde / the whiche is conceyued of the holy goost / borne of Mary the mayde / suffred payne & passyon vn[der] Ponce Pylate. Crucefyed / deed / & buryed ...

— A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men • Thomas Betson

... curious paths to this calm hermitage between Shepherd's Bush and Acton Vale. The golden weeks of the summer passed on in their enchanted procession, and Annie had not returned, neither had she written. Lucian, on his side, sat apart, wondering why his longing for her were not shaper. As he though of his raptures he would smile faintly to himself, and wonder whether he had not lost the world and Annie with it. In the garden of Avallaunius his sense of external things had grown dim and indistinct; the actual, material life seemed every day to become a show, ...

— The Hill of Dreams • Arthur Machen

... sky, His words, like whirlwinds, spin on high Systems and creeds pellmell together; 'Tis strange as to a deaf man's eye, While trees uprooted splinter by, The dumb turmoil of stormy weather; Less of iconoclast than shaper, His spirit, safe behind the reach Of the tornado of his speech, Burns calmly as ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell