trying plane

noun

1. Also: try plane. a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards

Example Sentences

The jack plane is followed by the fore plane, the truing, or trying plane, which varies in size from about 18 inches long with a blade 21⁄8 inches wide, to 20 inches long with a cutter or blade 23⁄8 inches wide.

From Project Gutenberg

This I do with a twenty-two inch trying plane, and having done it to my mind, I take cork rubber, as shown on illustration of tools used by me, No. 67, and rough sand paper, No. 2½, maker's number, and proceed to scour it level—smoothness is not essential.

From Project Gutenberg