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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the manufacturing company's name, from Naumkeag.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]naumkeag (plural naumkeags)
- (historical) A machine for smoothing the surface of a shoe's sole and heel with a fine abrasive.
- 1912, Insurance Library Association of Boston, Lectures on Fire Insurance:
- Every well appointed shoe factory equips such machines as edge trimmers, heel shavers, rough rounders, naumkeags, bottom, tip and tap scourers and brushes with a hooded metal pipe, into which the leather dust and buffings are drawn as soon as made.
Verb
[edit]naumkeag (third-person singular simple present naumkeags, present participle naumkeaging, simple past and past participle naumkeaged)
- (historical) To smooth the parts of a shoe using this machine.