Word Meanings - PLANER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even. Hansard. Planer centers. See under Center. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.
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- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - PLANKING
1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - BLOCKISH
Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - PLANE TREE
See PLANE - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - PLANISHING
a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t. Planishing rolls , rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness. - BLOCKING
1. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks. 2. Blocks used to support temporarily. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - GRAMME MACHINE
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - CAUTIONARY BLOCK
A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like. - CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - BURRING MACHINE
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.