woodworking plane

1. 1.

   a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood

   “the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work”

   Synonymsplanecarpenter's plane

   Broaderedge toolhand tool

   Narrowerbeading planeblock planebullnosechamfer planecircular planecombination planedovetail planefore planejack planejointer

Questions about woodworking plane

What does woodworking plane mean?

woodworking plane means "a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood".

What is another word for woodworking plane?

Close synonyms include plane, carpenter's 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 woodworking plane a common word?

woodworking 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.