match plane

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   a plane having cutters designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards

   Synonymstonguing and grooving plane

   Broaderplane

Questions about match plane

What does match plane mean?

match plane means "a plane having cutters designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards".

What is another word for match plane?

Close synonyms include tonguing and grooving plane. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is match plane a common word?

match 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.