razor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A sharp tool used to shave hair from the skin.

   He cut himself shaving with an old razor.

2. 2
   verb

   To shave something with a razor.

   He razored off his beard before the interview.

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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