a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 250 After many maner castynge, hewynge, dentynge, and planynge [L. superfluorum resectionem]..suche tables and bordes may be euene and wel y-ioyned.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 403 Planynge, levigacio.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Applanissement, a planing.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desridement, a planing, vnwrinkling, vnfoulding.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 65 So continue your several lays of Plaining.

1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. at Japanning Rub the work over with a wet rag till it is rendered as smooth as possible; this work is called water-planing.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 560 Planing..by which wood is reduced to a smooth and uniform surface, by means of an instrument called a plane.

1895 Booth's Life & Labour V. 86 The machinist's shop, for planing, moulding, mortising, and turning, being now an annexe of every large joinery works.

1958 A. D. Merriman Dict. Metall. 305/1 Other methods used to scalp the ingot are by chipping, milling, planing, [etc.] .

1994 Harrowsmith Mar. 27/3 ‘Floating’ was the word used to described the planing of the plaster surface on the second coat.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Shauings, chips, or planings of timber.

1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 124 Thin Shavings or Planings of Beech.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. II. 313 Put into your Vessel the planing [1716 plaining] or Chips of green Beech.

1910 Bot. Gaz. 50 146 When the treated lumber is shipped to northern markets for finishing the planings and shavings cannot be burned.

1998 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 9694/1 Planings were collected from the surface of vertical woody stems with a wood plane.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Aiscette, a little planing axe.

1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 192 A Little plaining ax or Chip-ax.

1569 in B. Dietz Port & Trade Early Elizabethan London (1972) (modernized text) 115 4 doz. planing irons.

1631 B. Jonson New Inne iv. ii. 80 You Will carry your goose about you, stil? your planing Iron? Your tongue to smooth all?

1885 Manufacturer & Builder Mar. 57/2 Elongated slots also provided in the planing irons.

1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 183 A many-sided man, the majority of whose facets were, unfortunately..shaped by the planing-steel of the System.

1545 Rates Custome House sig. cij^v Playninge tabels the dossen. iiii.s.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. x. 196 The long planing-table in the middle of the workshop.

1992 Do it Yourself (BNC) 36 The work and planing table section consists of a 40 mm thick, impact-resistant mdf top.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 801 The polishing rubbers are coarse linen cloths, or bagging, wedged tight into an iron planing tool.

1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 172/2 The ‘planing tool’, an instrument made of steel, somewhat in the form of a hook, with the point so inclined as to present itself towards the surface of the metal to be planed.

1990 D. Folster Chocolate Ganongs St. Stephen x. 110 Their job was to shave the dark skin from cracked coconuts with a planing tool called a spokeshave.

1805 U.S. Patents 1 June Planing machine.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1729/1 The cylinder planing-machine. This is now the usual machine. It has cutters on a drum rotating on a horizontal axis over the board which passes beneath.

1991 Highways & Transportation Aug. 14/1 The original hardshoulder pavement layers were removed using a planing machine.

1844 Knickerbocker 24 184 The uplifted arm of Labor..meets his eye in the..planing mill.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Planing-machine, Planing-mill, a facing-machine for smoothing boards, etc.

1999 M. Simonds Lion in Room Next Door xi. 230 This is where they [sc. my great-uncles] came, where they built the planing mill that left them deaf.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. iv. 140 There are birds which support themselves for some time at the same height without seeming to move their wings; this is called planeing.

1908 Daily Mail 10 Aug. 5/4 Safety would reside in high flight; it would always be possible to ‘plane’ to earth, and in ‘planing’ the machine would progress many more feet than it would fall.

1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 186 Watch how they [sc. birds' wings] are used for planing, and try to see what happens on landing.

1910 Forest & Stream 9 Apr. 586/2 In my experiments with hydroplanes weighing one ton to one ton and a half, I have found that the boat commenced ‘planing’ at a speed of five to six knots.

1950 Times 19 Aug. 2/5 The conditions of wind and sea were favourable for planing.

1972 C. Mudie Motor Boats 48 A fast boat on the verge of planing or actually planing builds up a pressure on the under surfaces of the hull.

1997 Boards Mar. 20/2 The Evolution Freeride is designed to endow convertible boards with high speed, early planing and manoeuvrability.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. iv. 140 These planeing birds are obliged from time to time to regain that height, by a flight in the common way, which they have insensibly lost.

1957 H. Somerville Yacht & Dinghy Racing ii. 33 If the boat is of the light planing variety, playing the sheets..will have to be done very quickly to help her into a plane.

1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 June (Mag. section) 14 I paused once half way up, up there in that transcendent region of the air, over the reborn trees, above the planing hawks, [etc.].

1992 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel (Nexis) 15 Mar. d15 Over the crystal field the skaters dance, Swooping like planing birds they twist and sing.