tonguing and grooving plane

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

   Synonymsmatch plane

   Broaderplane

Questions about tonguing and grooving plane

What does tonguing and grooving plane mean?

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

What is another word for tonguing and grooving plane?

Close synonyms include match 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 tonguing and grooving plane a common word?

tonguing and grooving 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.