smoothing plane

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   a small plane for finish work

   Synonymssmooth plane

   Broaderplane

Questions about smoothing plane

What does smoothing plane mean?

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

What is another word for smoothing plane?

Close synonyms include smooth 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 smoothing plane a common word?

smoothing 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.