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shape
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shape
1. Any of a number of metal bars or beams of uniform section, as an I-beam.
2. To cut a profile or detail, as a beaded or rounded edge on a board.
3. To work a material to a required pattern, as on a shaper.
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You know the sort - made from only the finest beans, picked in moonlight and individually licked into shape by skilled chocolatiers (since 1865).
WEEKEND: Please keep chocs away by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
But she has the height advantage over Alex Ferns as her intended and it's hard to imagine she wouldn't have had him licked into shape.
Not quite rocking the boat yet by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
And it's not the only former slapper tavern to have been licked into shape by the city's own club-cleansing clique.
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