▪ I. planing, vbl. n.1
(ˈpleɪnɪŋ)
[-ing1.]
1. The action of plane v.1
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 403/1 Planynge, levigacio. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Applanissement, a planing. 1703 Moxon Mech. Exerc. 68 So continue your several lays of Planeing. 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 560 Planing..by which wood is reduced to a smooth and uniform surface, by means of an instrument called a plane. |
† 2. concr. A piece planed off; a shaving. Obs.
| 1598 Florio, Piallure, shauings, chips, or planings of timber. 1676 Worlidge Cyder (1691) 162 Thin shavings or planings of beech. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 313 Put into your Vessel the plaining, or Chips of green Beech. |
3. attrib. and Comb., esp. in the names of tools, etc., used in planing, as planing-axe, planing-iron, planing-steel, planing-table, planing tool; planing machine, a machine (of various kinds) for planing wood or metal; planing-mill, = planing-machine; also, a workshop where planing is done.
| 1545 Rates Customs C ij b, Playninge tabels the dossen iiiis. 1630 B. Jonson New Inn iv. ii, You Will carry your goose about you still, your planing-iron! Your tongue to smooth all! 1693 Plaining axe [see chip-axe]. 1840 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 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. 1840 Digest of Patents U.S., 1790–1839 346 Planing machine... June 1, 1805. 1844 Knickerbocker XXIV. 184 The uplifted arm of Labor..meets his eye in the..planing mill. 1851 C. Cist Sk. Cincinnati in 1851 227 Planing machines..made..by B. Bicknell. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Planing-machine, Planing-mill, a facing-machine for smoothing boards, etc. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 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. 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. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 1 Dec. 2/1 Magnets..will lift from the planing-table a casting of 32 cwt. |
▪ II. planing, vbl. n.2 and ppl. a.
see plane v.2