planern.

1413 Will in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 217 (MED) Y be-quethe to the for-sede Jon..a flot an a plan [read planer].

a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 120 Loke þy salte be sutille, whyte, fayre and drye, and þy planere for thy salte, shalle be made of yverye.

1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.ii Than loke your salte be whyte and drye, the planer made of Iuory two inches brode and thre inches longe.

1562 P. Whitehorne tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre v. f. lxviii^v It is conueniente to haue plainers and labourers afore, whom maie make thee the waie plaine.

1883 in Chicago Advance 20 Sept. We may now regard our familiar earthworm as..a ‘planer of the mountain-side, a maker of fertile, alluvial corn lands’.

1992 New Civil Engineer 13 Feb. 28/2 Ingersoll-Rand has extended its range of cold road planers with the launch of the ABG ProCut 500 for removing bituminous course, hot rolled or mastic asphalts and concrete to depths of 130mm.

1596 Thomas's Dict. (ed. 5) Dolabra, a carpenters axe, or..a great plainer.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 493 A man shall see the fine shavings thereof run alwaies round and winding,..as the Ioyner runneth ouer the painels and quarters with his plainer.

?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses v. 78 A great Axe, first she gaue, that two wayes cut;..A plainer then.

a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) ii. 5 Shavings of Wood (that Carpenters and Joiners are wont to take off with their Plainers).

1851 Debow's Rev. July 82 They have now a beautiful steam-engine, a furnace for melting iron, six turning-lathes for wood and iron, one iron planer, circular saws, upright drills, and every kind of machinery for carrying on successfully the above kind of business.

1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 208/2 To them are attached planers, shingle machines..and so on.

1900 Engin. Mag. 19 670 There will be..heavy planers, boring mills, and other large tools.

1950 Landfall 4 125 The planer..spits out faced boards for the tailer-out to stack by the goose saw.

1994 Harrowsmith Apr. 52/2 Many small sawmills are not equipped with a kiln for drying lumber or a planer for dressing it.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A planer of boords.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een schaver, a Shaver, a Planer, or a Smoother.

1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Planer, one who smooths with a plane.

1865 J. T. F. Turner Familiar Descr. Old Delabole Slate Quarries 16 To calculate the wages due to the sawyers, planers, and raspers.

1881 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Nov. 7/2 Planers, slotters, turners, smiths, and men engaged in skilled work.

1997 Bloomington (Indiana) Voice 10 Apr. 6/1 At the height of the Great Depression, an unemployed stone planer..opened a small restaurant..on the lot where the Chocolate Moose now stands.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 291/1 Planer,..a flat square-made piece of wood, used by the compositor for forcing down the type in the form, and making the surface perfectly even.

1880 Printing Times Feb. 30/1 The appliances..consist of brushes for moulding..mallet, planer, blanket.

1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc.: Printing (new ed.) II. 408 The ‘Dressing-block’ is now known as the planer.

1970 R. K. Kent Lang. Journalism 103 Planer, a flat block of wood used with a mallet to press type flat on its feet in the form during makeready.

2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 195/1 Usually made of maple, the planer was used to level up the type after it was set into the chase.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1725/2 Planer-bar, a device attached to a planer for the purpose of effecting in part the work of a slotting or shaping machine.

1876 Official Catal. Internat. Exhib. (U.S. Centennial Exhib.) 34/2 Planer bar, doubles the capacity, of iron planers; reaches through work.

1864 Sci. Amer. 10 Dec. 382/3 (advt.) Planer Centers that will swing 12, 18, and 24 inches, for sale by Thomas & Co., Worcester, Mass.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1726/1 Planer-centers, devices similar to lathe-centers for supporting small work on the bed of a planing-machine.

1907 Elyria (Ohio) Reporter 25 July 3/4 Here is an ironmonger's with its shop front crammed with tools of every description; lathe carriers, planer centers, saws, planes, ax-heads, [etc.].

1868 Sci. Amer. 21 Mar. 183/3 (advt.) For Patent Engine Lathes and Upright Drills, Planer Centers, Lathe Chucks, Planer Chucks, [etc.].

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 687/1 Planer chuck, a device bolted or keyed to the planer table and serving to dog an article under the action of the plane.

1889 Olean (N.Y.) Democrat 12 Dec. Patents granted to the citizens of western New York... Rank J. Swart, Auburn, carpet stretcher; Russell Weller, Buffalo, planer chuck.

1865 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 18 Jan. (advt.) All descriptions of Cast Steel Mouldings; Iron and Steel-faced planer knives made to order.

1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 108 For planer-knives, have a coarse grain soft stone..not less than 40 inches in diameter when new.

1990 Pract. Woodworking Mar. 52/2 (advt.) Planer knives 10″.

1876 Manufacturer & Builder Dec. 9/1 (advt.) Planer Knife Grinder $16.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 687/1 Planer knife grinder, an emery-wheel or stone, traversing on its mandrel in front of a knife dogged to the table or conversely.

1923 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 29 Nov. 15/2 (advt.) Band saws, swing saws, planer knife grinders, cut-off saws and saw tables. Priced to move.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 687/1 Planer vise, a device to hold work on the bed of a planing machine while under treatment.

1937 Nevada State Jrnl. 16 June 12/2 (advt.) Planer vice flat plate 10″.

1858 Sci. Amer. 27 Nov. 90/3 Attached respectively to the bar, I, containing the jaws, n n, which hold the bolt, J, and the bar, v, connected with the planer head.

1887 Manufacturer & Builder July 151/2 Figs. 4 and 5 represent a set of Shimer matcher heads, as applied to the class of machines in which the side spindles do not project above the planer-head level.

1961 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 23 Aug. 10/3 Gang saw w/blades and planer heads.

2003 Family Handyman (Nexis) 1 Nov. 25 Most new planers have a mechanism for locking the planer heads in place after you adjust the depth.

1943 J. R. Connelly Technique Production Processes iii. 85 (caption) Planer-miller. A good case of comb[in]ing the features of several standard tools for special work.

1971 C. R. Hine Machine Tools & Processes xiii. 308 The planer-miller is a hybrid of the two machines, but because of its size and construction (with a crossrail) it can rightfully be classified as a planer.

2004 Asia Pulse (Nexis) 29 Apr. The 2003 tariff rate..[was] 5 per cent for numerical-controlled planer-millers and vertical lathes.

1863 Sci. Amer. 11 Apr. 239/2 Also a fine lot of lathe and planer tools and drills.

1914 E. Oberg Arithm. Simplified (‘Machinery’ Ref. Bk. No. 137) (verso front cover) Reference Books. General Machine Shop Practice. No. 7. Lathe and planer tools [etc.].

1967 Amer. Speech 42 296 A surface of fine grooves in parallel lines, made by a planer tool with fine teeth.