shaper

[ shey-per ]

noun

a person or thing that shapes.
a machine tool for forming flat surfaces, consisting of a frame, usually horizontal, on which the work is held while a cutting tool moves along it with a reciprocating motion.: Compare planer (def. 2).

(in woodworking) a stationary power tool driving a vertical spindle to which cutters are locked, used in joinery and for forming decorative edges.

Origin of shaper

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at shape, -er¹

Despite the fact that the first massive wave of baby boomers were becoming teenagers—the age when most women began to purchase figure shapers— girdle sales started to fall.
If you love your workout gear, thank the girdles and Flexatards of the past | Danielle Friedman | February 15, 2022 | Popular-Science
As a biographer who has covered the shapers of technological revolutions, I see in Musk many of the traits of earlier innovators.
Why Elon Musk Will Go Down in History | Walter Isaacson | December 13, 2021 | Time
Harry Knight, coaching director at surf coaching resort Surf Simply, told me a story about the famed surfer and board shaper Donald Takayama.
Use physics to pull off gravity-defying surfing moves | Noah Lederman | October 5, 2021 | Popular-Science
Abraham Lincoln was, by any measure, a great communicator and a skillful shaper of public opinion.
Lincoln the Primitive Communicator? What He Can Teach Modern Politicians | Douglas L. Wilson | December 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Thus for more than half a century Mr. Tilden was a shaper and a maker of American history.
Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tilden, v. 1 | Samuel J. Tilden

Shapster is a feminine form of Shapper or shaper—one who shaped or cut out cloths for garments.
Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature | Charles W. Bardsley
First did He shape for the children of men Heaven for a roof, the holy shaper.
Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days | Emily Hickey
Before their eyes he turned out an irrigation pump on an automatic shaper.
The Pirates of Ersatz | Murray Leinster
Transcendent shapeless shaper and essential beauty is supreme, vi.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 | Plotinos (Plotinus)

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