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Definition of Jackplane
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jackplane
Literary usage of Jackplane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Mechanics Shop Notes (1920)
"... slid down Plane Adapted for Curved Surfaces A very serviceable plane for
smoothing curved wood surfaces can be easily made from an ordinary jackplane, ..."
2. Educational Woodwork: A Text Book for the Use of Instructors and Students in by Arthur Cawdron Horth (1905)
"The trying plane is much longer and heavier than the jackplane, ... The smoothing
plane is much smaller than the jackplane, and has no handle, ..."
3. The Spanish Regime in Missouri: A Collection of Papers and Documents by Etienne Burnet, Ernest Edward Austen, Louis Houck (1909)
"One hammer. Three grindstones without winches. Three winches for the same.
Four half-good hatchets. Four carpenter glue-presses. Twenty-six jackplane irons, ..."
4. Leading American Inventors by George Iles (1912)
"All this came under the eye of his son as a child, and under his fingers, as he
grew big enough to handle a jackplane or a gimlet. Eli soon preferred tasks ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1907)
"The artisan talks of his jackplane, rule, and hammer, of a screw, lath, and chalk.
The housewife uses a kettle, is proud of the panels of her sideboard, ..."
6. Minnesota and Its Resources: To which are Appended Campfire Sketches, Or by John Wesley Bond (1853)
"... &c.; everything, in short, from a steamboat to a jackplane, from a ploughshare
to a locomotive-engine to run on the St. Anthony aud St. Paul railroad, ..."
7. An Appeal to Cæsar by Albion Winegar Tourgée (1884)
"He thinks the man who shoves a jackplane just exactly as worthy as the man who
owns the palace. One of the essential conditions of the home worth living in, ..."
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