naumkeag

A machine for smoothing the surface of a shoe's sole and heel with a fine abrasive.

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.

To smooth the parts of a shoe using this machine.

A member of a Native American people living near Salem, Massachusetts.