Definition of Scrub plane

1. Noun. A narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrub Plane

scroyle
scroyles
scrub
scrub-bird
scrub beefwood
scrub bird
scrub birds
scrub brush
scrub bull
scrub fowl
scrub nurse
scrub oak
scrub oaks
scrub palmetto
scrub pine
scrub plane (current term)
scrub robin
scrub robins
scrub typhus
scrub up
scrub wallabies
scrub wallaby
scrubbable
scrubbed
scrubbers
scrubbier
scrubbiest
scrubbily
scrubbiness

Literary usage of Scrub plane

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Repressive Legislation of the Republic of South Africa by Elizabeth S. Landis, United Nations Unit on Apartheid (1917)
"scrub plane. In cases where lumber must be dressed from the rough, without being ... 40 scrub plane, illustrated in Fig. 27, will be almost indispensable. ..."

2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"For very rough work, a plane called a scrub plane, which is both shorter and narrower than a jack- plane, is frequently used. ..."

3. Modern Engineering Practice: A Reference Library by American School (Chicago, Ill.) (1906)
"40 scrub plane, illustrated in Fig. 28, will be almost indispensable. It is 9^ inches long, and has a cutter 1J inches wide. The cutter is a single iron, ..."

4. Manual Training Magazine (1913)
"That the cap iron, for benchwork, should be set about -fa" from edge. That a modern iron jack-plane is not a scrub-plane, as the old fashioned wooden one ..."

5. Machine Shop Catechism: Consisting of Over 1000 Carefully Selected Questions by American machinist (1913)
"... the smooth plane and the block plane D, for planing ends; the scrub plane E, to rough down rough pieces for the finishing plane; the circular plane F, ..."

6. Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice: A Manual of Shop Practice, Pattern edited by Howard Monroe Raymond (1904)
"40 scrub plane, illustrated in Fig. 28, will be almost indispensable. It is 9£ inches long, and has a cutter 1J inches wide. The cutter is a single iron, ..."

7. Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice: A Manual of Shop Practice, Pattern edited by Howard Monroe Raymond (1906)
"40 scrub plane, illustrated in Fig. 28, will be almost indispensable. It is 9^ inches long, and has a cutter 1J inches wide. The cutter is a single iron, ..."

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