Planer
[pleinә]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.
(n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.
Typist: Vilma
Examples
- We have before, in the chapter on metal-working, shown the importance of the _slide-rest_, _planer_ and _lathe_, _when combined_, and which also are extensively adapted to wood-working. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Bramah’s planer, British patent No. 2,652, of 1802, was about the first planing machine of the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When the cutters are straight and arranged horizontally, it is a simple _planer_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The equipment of this shop consists of large saws, planers, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Terence