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n. One that planes, especially a machine tool that is used to smooth or finish the surfaces of wood or metal.

n. Printing A smooth block of wood used to level a form of type.

adj. comparative form of plane: more plane

n. A woodworking tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.

n. A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.

n. A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.

n. One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.

n. A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.

n. A tool for planing wood; a plane; also, a plan-ing-machine.

n. A utensil for smoothing or leveling salt in salt-cellars.

n. In printing, a block of wood, about 9 inches long, 3½ wide, and 3 high, on the top of which is a strip of leather, by means of which the projecting types of a form are beaten down to a level by blows of a mallet.

n. A power-tool of the largest class for planing massive pieces of metal which can be surfaced or machined by a cutting-tool working in a straight line.

n. In geology, a series of limestones, marls, shales, sandstones, and conglomerates representing the littoral facies of both the lower members (Cenomanian and Turonian) of the Cretaceous system in northeastern Germany. Many of the component beds are highly fossiliferous and contain chiefly ammonites, echinoderms, pelecypods, and brachiopods.

n. a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

"He was running what is called a planer, a machine for trimming pieces of cold metal just from the foundry or the casting room."

power tool   

planer and jointer    planer knife-grinder    open-side planer    rotary planer    compound planer    diagonal planer    snow-planer    rack-and-pinion planer    plate-edge planer    side planer   

plane    thickness planer   

Gaynor    Mainer    Rainer    campaigner    complainer    container    craner    drainer    entertainer    gainer   

royal    shaper    gaie    proper    slicer    hacksaw    devenir    unprosperous    connaitre    hummingbird