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hollow-ground
[ hol-oh-ground ]
adjective
- ground so as to produce a concave surface or surfaces behind a cutting edge:
the hollow-ground blade of an ice skate.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hollow-ground1
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Example Sentences
So this “low and hollow ground,” stiffened with our dead, is holy soil to the British race.
Nearly all razors are now made hollow-ground or concave—a great improvement over the old style of thick blade.
The edge of the hollow-ground razor is thinner and therefore cuts better, and is much easier to keep sharp.
In a very deeply hollow ground razor, the blade is ground extremely thin, back to a line some distance from the edge.
Third—Shaving with a razor that is too hollow ground, so that the edge springs and bends on the face.
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