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PLANER (planer)
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Irregular inflected form: planer
Dictionary entry overview: What does planer mean?
• PLANER (noun)
The noun PLANER has 1 sense:
1. a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
Familiarity information: PLANER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
plane; planer; planing machine
Hypernyms ("planer" is a kind of...):
power tool (a tool driven by a motor)
Derivation:
plane (cut or remove with or as if with a plane)
plane (make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane)
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