1. A carpenter's tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing and leveling wood. 2. A trowel-shaped tool for smoothing the surface of clay, sand, or plaster in a mold.
VERB:
Inflected forms: planed, plan·ing, planes
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To smooth or finish with or as if with a plane. 2. To remove with a plane: plane off the rough edges on a board.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To work with a plane. 2. To act as a plane.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin plna, from plnre, to plane, from plnus, flat. See pel-2 in Appendix I.
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