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(pl
ān)
n.1. A carpenter's tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing and leveling wood.
2. A trowel-shaped tool for smoothing the surface of clay, sand, or plaster in a mold.
v. planed, plan·ing, planes
v.tr.1. To smooth or finish with a plane: planed the door.
2. To remove with a plane: plane off the rough edges on a board.
v.intr. To work with a plane.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin plāna, from plānāre, to plane, from plānus, flat; see pelə-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

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