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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.

 

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