Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body. · Any tool or instrument designed for shaving. · The sharp tusk of a wild boar. · A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo shave with a razor.
From Middle English rasour, from Old French rasour, from raser (“to scrape, to shave”). More at rat. By surface analysis, raze + -or. Displaced the native Old English sċierseax (literally “shaving knife”).
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