naumkeag

See also: Naumkeag

English

Etymology

From the manufacturing company's name, from Naumkeag.

Noun

naumkeag (plural naumkeags)

1. (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

naumkeag (third-person singular simple present naumkeags, present participle naumkeaging, simple past and past participle naumkeaged)

1. (historical) To smooth the parts of a shoe using this machine.

Derived terms

• naumkeager