planer
Pluralplaners
Pluralplaners
- 1A tool that shaves wood smooth or makes one side flat and level.
Like a cheese slicer that shaves off thin layers to leave a smooth top.
She fed each board through the planer until both faces were smooth.
A good planer takes off paper-thin shavings with every pass.
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- 2A worker whose job is using a planer to make wood smooth.
The planer wiped the sawdust off his hands after smoothing boards all day.
Her grandfather worked as a planer in the old sawmill.
- 3A large machine that slides a metal part back and forth under a cutting tool to make big flat surfaces.
Like running a block of cheese back and forth under a fixed knife to shave it flat.
The factory's planer could machine a surface several meters long.
Workers clamped the heavy casting to the planer before starting the cut.
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- 4Comparative form of plane. This is rare, and most people say flatter.
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Less common meaning
- 5A wooden block used to press metal type down flat in a printing frame.
The printer tapped the planer with a mallet to level the type.
He laid the planer flat on the page and gave it a sharp knock.
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Showing meanings only.
planer is a form of plane
plane, adjective: Completely flat and even, with no bumps or curves. Full entry
- Spelling
- plane → planer: add -r
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Origin
From Middle English planer, made from "plane" plus "-er".