planer
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Carpentry. a power machine for removing the rough or excess surface from a board.
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Metalworking. a machine for cutting flat surfaces, having a cutting tool supported by an overhead frame beneath which the work slides back and forth.
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Typesetting. a block of smooth, hard wood for leveling the type in a chase by tapping with a mallet.
noun
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a machine with a cutting tool that makes repeated horizontal strokes across the surface of a workpiece: used to cut flat surfaces into metal
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a machine for planing wood, esp one in which the cutting blades are mounted on a rotating drum
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printing a flat piece of wood used to level type in a chase
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any person or thing that planes
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Etymology
Origin of planer
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at plane 2, -er 1
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At minimum, you’d need a table saw, which allows you to cut wood to width, as well as a planer and jointer, used to create smooth, even surfaces on wood.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Hillan said Shed 17, which shared a wall with the planer building, was made of cement but was housed in an old wooden frame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2023
Next, remove any excess wax on the exterior with a cheese planer or knife.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2022
He says recent upgrades to the hydro's capacity have enabled the community to invest in an electric sawmill, an electric timber-drying kiln and an electric planer.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2022
The South Stillwater Lumber Company has a mill with a capacity of 90,000 feet per day, with planer and other machinery attached, in which they have invested $70,000.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
Lagos governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday said a six-member panel of engineers, architects and town planers had been appointed to "bring closure to this event and ensure that justice is served".
From Reuters ● Nov. 4, 2021
I am able to report that the huge planers and millers need to work armor plate particularly, for the expanded naval program will be available on time.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the hard core of his book is a gallery of his humanized turret lathes, planers and millers.
From Time Magazine Archive
A salty, pub-loving sailor and longtime racing companion of Prince Philip's, Fox designed dozens of craft ranging in size from dinghies to 37-ft. planers.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is engines and boilers, looms and spindles, lathes and planers, rails, cars, bridges, tunnels, canals, ships, buildings, and all the myriad instruments which actively aid man in making the things he wants for consumption.
From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates
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