planer

Meaning

Noun

1. A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
2. A person employed to use this kind of woodworking tool.
3. 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 The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.
4. (archaic) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.

Adj

comparative form of plane: more plane

plane

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Synonyms

plane

planing machine

carpenter’s plane

planning machine

facing machine

mechanical slicer

table planing machine

belt-drive double housing planer

closed planer

sander

planing tool

Translations

piallatrice

raboteuse

rabot

Hobelmaschine

piallatore

battitoia

Hobel

raboteur

schaaf

plaina

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpleɪ̯n.əɹ/

Etymology

From Middle English planer, planere, equivalent to plane + -er.