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Planer
Meaning
Adj
●
comparative form of
plane
: more
plane
Noun
●
In Woodworking:
A
tool
which
smooths
a
surface
or makes one
surface
of a
workpiece
parallel
to the
tool
's bed.
●
In Mechanical engineering & Tools:
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superseded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
machine
s.
●
In Printing:
A
wooden
block
used for
forcing
down the type in a form, and making the
surface
even.
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