"carpenter's plane" | Definition and Related Words

carpenter's plane

Noun

A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood (synset 103961007)
"the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"
is a type 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
subtypes:
- 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)
same as: plane, woodworking plane

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