CARPENTER'S PLANE

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does carpenter's plane mean? 

• CARPENTER'S PLANE (noun)
  The noun CARPENTER'S PLANE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CARPENTER'S PLANE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARPENTER'S PLANE (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

carpenter's plane; woodworking plane; plane

Context example:

the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work

Hypernyms ("carpenter's plane" is a kind of...):

edge tool (any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge))

hand tool (a tool used with workers' hands)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carpenter's plane"):

beading plane (a plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork)

smooth plane; smoothing plane (a small plane for finish work)

scrub plane (a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock)

router plane (a woodworking plane with a narrow cutting head that will make grooves with smooth bottoms)

openside plane; rabbet plane (a woodworking plane designed to cut rabbets)

match plane; tonguing and grooving plane (a plane having cutters designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards)

jointer; jointer plane; jointing plane; long plane (a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together)

jack plane (a carpenter's plane for rough surfacing)

fore plane (a carpenter's plane intermediate between a jack plane and a jointer plane)

dovetail plane (a woodworking plane designed to make the grooves for dovetail joints)

combination plane (a woodworking plane that has interchangeable cutters of various shapes)

circular plane; compass plane (a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces)

chamfer plane (a plane that makes a beveled edge)

bullnose; bullnosed plane (a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front)

block plane (a small plane used on end grains of wood)

spokeshave (a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes))