razor

razor
\ \ [13] A razor is etymologically a ‘scraper’.
\ \ The word was borrowed from Old French rasor, a derivative of raserscrape, shave’ (from which English gets raze [16]). This in turn went back via Vulgar Latin *rasāre to Latin rāderescrape’, source also of English abrade [17], erase, and possibly rascal.
\ \ Cf.ABRADE, ERASE, RASCAL

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