planer

plane +‎ -er

• enPR: plānʹər
• Homophones: plainer, planar
• Rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)

planer

1. comparative form of plane: more plane

planer (plural planers)

1. A woodworking tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
2. 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 The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines.
3. (archaic, printing) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hansard to this entry?)

• plane
• thickness planer

• planner

• replan

From plain.

• IPA^(key): /pla.ne/

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planer

1. to glide, to hover
2. to be entranced, to be mesmerized
3. (slang, of a drug user) to be high
4. (slang) to be going well; to run smoothly

• plan

• “planer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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planer

1. inflected form of plan

planer m

1. indefinite plural of plan

planer

1. imperative of planere

• IPA^(key): /plǎneːr/
• Hyphenation: pla‧ner

plànēr m (Cyrillic spelling пла̀не̄р)

1. planner

planer

1. indefinite plural of plan