单词 | jack plane |
释义 | jack planen. A medium-sized plane (plane n.2 2) used by joiners for smoothing and jointing rough timber.Because a jack plane can to some extent be used to perform the work of both a smoothing plane and a jointer plane, it is sometimes considered a general-purpose plane; cf. quot. 1932. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > heavy jack plane1680 trying-plane1815 1680 Inventory 9 Mar. in W. M. Sargent York Deeds (Maine) (1889) V. i. f. 2 A Jacke playn 2s. 1701 Moxon's Mech. Exercises (ed. 3) 164 Jack-Plane, called so by Carpenters, but is indeed the same that Joyners call the Fore-Plane. 1759 H. Woodward Let. 6 Oct. in S. K. Stevens & D. H. Kent Papers Henry Bouquet Series 21644 Pt. II (1941) 140 You woud much oblige me in the Loan of a Jack Plane. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 109 The jack-plane used by joiners, is generally about seventeen inches in length. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlviii. 270 That comes from the jack-plane, and my pushing against it day after day and year after year. 1932 Pop. Mech. Sept. 505/1 You can get along very well with just one of them if you get a jack plane. It is sufficiently short to be used for end work or smoothing, and long enough to plane the edges of screen frames, storm sash, etc., reasonably true. 2002 A. Corriveau Housewrights vi. 164 A jack plane for rough work, short and long jointers for dressing, half a dozen smoothing planes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1680 |
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