English > carpenter's plane: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood. |
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| Synonyms | plane, woodworking plane |
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| Narrower | beading plane | A plane / plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork |
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| block plane | A small plane / 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 / plane that makes a beveled edge |
| circular plane, compass plane | A plane / 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 / plane having cutters designed / designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards |
| openside plane, rabbet plane | A woodworking plane designed to cut / 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 / plane for finish work |
| spokeshave | A small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade |
| Broader | edge tool | Any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane / plane or gouge) |
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| hand tool | A tool used with workers' hands |
| Spanish | cepillo de carpintero, limpiadera |
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| Catalan | ribot |
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