dovetail plane

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   a woodworking plane designed to make the grooves for dovetail joints

   Broaderplane

Questions about dovetail plane

What does dovetail plane mean?

dovetail plane means "a woodworking plane designed to make the grooves for dovetail joints".

Is dovetail plane a common word?

dovetail 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.