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CARPENTER'S PLANE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
Example:
the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work
Synonyms:
carpenter's plane; plane; woodworking plane
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("carpenter's plane" is a kind of...):
edge tool (any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge))
hand tool (a tool used with workers' hands)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carpenter's plane"):
beading plane (a plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork)
block plane (a small plane used on end grains of wood)
bullnose; bullnosed plane (a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front)
chamfer plane (a plane that makes a beveled edge)
circular plane; compass plane (a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces)
combination plane (a woodworking plane that has interchangeable cutters of various shapes)
dovetail plane (a woodworking plane designed to make the grooves for dovetail joints)
fore plane (a carpenter's plane intermediate between a jack plane and a jointer plane)
jack plane (a carpenter's plane for rough finishing)
jointer; jointer plane; jointing plane; long plane (a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together)
match plane; tonguing and grooving plane (a plane having cutters designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards)
openside plane; rabbet plane (a woodworking plane designed to cut rabbets)
router plane (a woodworking plane with a narrow cutting head that will make grooves with smooth bottoms)
scrub plane (a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock)
smooth plane; smoothing plane (a small plane for finish work)
spokeshave (a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes))
