planer

Plural: planers

Noun

• A machine or tool used for smoothing surfaces.
• a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
• A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
• A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.
• A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.

Adj

• comparative form of plane: more plane

Examples

• A skilled PLANER of words can always find a way to smooth out a tricky Scrabble rack into a high score.

Synonyms

plane, planing machine, thickness planer

Related Words

no-planer, planer tree, planner