smooth plane

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   a small plane for finish work

   Synonymssmoothing plane

   Broaderplane

Questions about smooth plane

What does smooth plane mean?

smooth plane means "a small plane for finish work".

What is another word for smooth plane?

Close synonyms include smoothing 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 smooth plane a common word?

smooth 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.