shaper

IPA: ʃˈeɪpɝ

One who shapes.
A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
(surfing) A person who designs and builds surfboards.

Examples of "shaper" in Sentences

"shaper," whose duty it was to shape a glorious deed into more glorious verse.
He is an opinion shaper, even if he shapes it by making people disagree with him.
William Paley, CBS, and the story of how TV became both a shaper and creator of politics.
I was reminded that in the evangelical community, God is routinely described as a shaper of everyday events.
I wore my shaper today too, and I feel so beautiful, despite the fact that my skirt and blouse are quite old.
Because of its longevity as a shaper of the partisan landscape, changes in abortion attitudes are especially portentous.
This is the original anonymous "girdle" commenter here: one of the ladies brought up the point that she physically felt better today, more held in and such, when she wore her shaper.
Set inside the Void, this story follows the life of Edeard, a young 'shaper' whose life is changed forever by a cataclysmic event and he finds his way to the great city of Makkatheren where he enters the service of the constables.
"Scattered across the asphalt like murderer's footprints, puddles of water turn bloody with sunset"), it vanishes when Stewart settles in to show us freelance detective Diane Fletcher using her ability as a "shaper" (someone who can read and experience the emotions of others) to help policeman Rolly French investigate the death of Jonathan Mask.