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Definition of Planing
1. plane [v] - See also: plane
Medical Definition of Planing
1. Fr. Plane, Planing machine. See Planer. A complex machine for planing wood, especially boards, containing usually a rapidly revolving cutter, which chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Planing
Literary usage of Planing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commercial Nomenclature by John K. Chandler, John C. Redman, Virginia H. Wood, Caroline S. Larner (1897)
"planing. Wood. Machines. planing, Wood, Dimension. Machines, planing and Matching.
Machines, planing, Matching and Molding. Machines, planing and Sawing, ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
"Last week he ran two planing machines, and fed them with lumber with the assistance
of a ... He has to handle and use tools when he makes planing knives, ..."
3. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"The slotting machine is a variety of planing machine, and is used for cutting
slots or keyways in metal. ¡Slotting machines with vertical cutting movement, ..."
4. Commercial Nomenclature by John K. Chandler, John C. Redman, Virginia H. Wood, Caroline S. Larner (1897)
"planing. Wood. Machines. planing, Wood, Dimension. Machines, planing and Matching.
Machines, planing, Matching and Molding. Machines, planing and Sawing, ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
"Last week he ran two planing machines, and fed them with lumber with the assistance
of a ... He has to handle and use tools when he makes planing knives, ..."
6. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"The slotting machine is a variety of planing machine, and is used for cutting
slots or keyways in metal. ¡Slotting machines with vertical cutting movement, ..."