Usage examples (6)

• Old-timers will recall "hoop poles", tall slender young saplings of shagbark hickory that were split and fashioned with the "drawshave" into barrel hoops.
• But there was a cooper's shop in town, and James was already very handy with a drawshave in getting out staves.
• Between his knees is a stout thong of wood, whittled round by the drawshave which his sleeping hand still holds in his lap.
• A hundred years ago Fairhaven had a dozen men or more who, with an auger, an adz, a broadax and a drawshave, could build a boat or a house warranted to outlast the owner.