woodworking plane
- noun
- /ˈwʊdˌwɜrkɪŋ pleɪn/
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gubia
- The craftsman adjusted his woodworking plane to achieve a perfectly smooth finish on the tabletop.
Examples
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Before assembling the cabinet, he carefully passed a woodworking plane over each board to remove any roughness.
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She inherited her grandfather's antique woodworking plane and still uses it in her workshop.
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He used a woodworking plane to finish the table.
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The woodworking plane is essential for carpenters.
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Before assembling the cabinet, he carefully passed a woodworking plane over each board to remove any roughness.
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The craftsman adjusted his woodworking plane to achieve a perfectly smooth finish on the tabletop.
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She inherited her grandfather's antique woodworking plane and still uses it in her workshop.
Synonyms
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7.1
A hand tool with a sharp blade for smoothing wood
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7.6
A hand tool with a long flat bottom for smoothing and shaping wood before finishing
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A hand tool that cuts a long groove along the edge of wood
A hand tool with an adjustable blade used to smooth or shape wood
A small hand tool that makes wood surfaces even and fine
A small hand tool that makes wood surfaces smooth
A small hand tool for smoothing and trimming the ends of wood
A long hand tool with a blade used to flatten rough boards before final smoothing
A long hand tool that smooths and flattens the edges of boards for a tight fit
A long tool carpenters use to make board edges straight
A long tool that makes the edges of boards straight so they fit together
A long flat tool for making board edges straight and smooth so they fit together
A woodworking tool with changeable blades that cuts grooves and shapes wood
A hand tool that cuts tongues and grooves in board edges so they fit together
A hand tool that cuts matching raised edges and slots on boards so they fit together
A hand tool with a flexible bottom for smoothing inside and outside curves in wood
A woodworking tool with a curved, flexible base for shaping rounded wood
A hand tool for cutting a sloping edge on wood
A woodworking tool for cutting a long groove along a board edge that has one open side
A small hand tool that cuts a straight groove across a wooden board
A tool for making narrow grooves with smooth flat bottoms in wood
A tool for cutting angled grooves that join two pieces of wood together
A hand tool with a curved blade that cuts small rounded shapes along wood edges
A small woodworking tool with its blade near the front for smoothing wood close to corners
A narrow heavy tool that quickly removes lots of rough wood
How Long
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7.6
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'woodworking' (relating to making objects from wood) with 'plane' (a handheld tool for shaping or smoothing wood); together they denote a plane used in woodworking. This noun–noun compound follows a common compositional pattern and the context disambiguates 'plane' from other senses, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the MWE.
Etymology
Woodworking plane is a hand tool with a sharp blade that you pull along a board to shave off thin curls of wood. The action of removing curls makes the surface flat and smooth, so the word plane came to mean a tool for making wood 'flat' or 'smooth'.