A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
The founder of a discipline or science.
A member of a church council.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
A term of respectful address for a priest.
Something inanimate that begets.
A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
A (generally human) male who begets a child.
A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
To provide with a father.
To adopt as one's own.
To give rise to.
To be a father to; to sire.
One who shapes.
A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
A person who designs and builds surfboards.