Definition of Planing

1. Verb. (present participle of plane) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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

plangency
plangent
plangently
planifolious
planiform
planigale
planigales
planigraphy
planimal
planimals
planimeter
planimeters
planimetric
planimetrically
planimetry
planing (current term)
planing machine
planipennia
planipetalous
planish
planished
planisher
planishers
planishes
planishing
planisphere
planispheres
planispheric
planithorax
planitia

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, ..."

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