scrub plane

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   a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock

   Broaderplane

Questions about scrub plane

What does scrub plane mean?

scrub plane means "a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock".

Is scrub plane a common word?

scrub 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.