block plane

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   a small plane used on end grains of wood

   Broaderplane

Questions about block plane

What does block plane mean?

block plane means "a small plane used on end grains of wood".

Is block plane a common word?

block plane is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.