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Planer   /plˈeɪnər/   Listen
noun
Planer  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.
2.
(Print.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.
Planer centers. See under Center.





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"Planer" Quotes from Famous Books



... life of frivolity. This may be true, but we must again note the stupendous industry which enabled him to finish Das Liebesverbot in so short a time. The most important event in Richard's life about this time was his engagement to Minna Planer. She is said to have been a handsome young woman; and, as impecuniosity is everlastingly an incentive to marriage, of course he married her. In the meantime he thoroughly enjoyed directing all the rubbish of the day, the season ended and he returned ...
— Richard Wagner - Composer of Operas • John F. Runciman
... someone, had had a workshop out there. I found the bench and a small table where bolt-holes, oil marks, and other traces said that there had been one of those big combination woodworking machines there, the kind that combines circular saw, drill, lathe, planer, router, dado, and does everything. There had been some metal-working stuff there, too, but nothing as elaborate as the woodshop. Mostly things like hacksaws and an electric drill, and a circular scar where a blowtorch ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith
... he knew, he told me that presently he would do me the kindness of making me the housemate of the prettiest and nicest girl to be found in the place at the time. She was the junior lead of the company, Mademoiselle Minna Planer, of whom doubtless I ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner
... a cab quick. It was Rue de la Huchette where you said your midwife lives, wasn't it? opposite a copper planer's? Haven't ...
— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
... ground and lumber in order to encourage the building of their enterprises. Also the dream of the schoolhouse and the church came true, as did the steam tugboat and the schooner with three masts. The mill was enlarged until it could cut forty thousand feet on a twelve-hour shift, and a planer and machines for making rustic siding and tongued-and-grooved flooring and ceiling were installed. More ox-teams appeared upon the skid-road, which was longer now; the cry of "Timber-r-r!" and the thunderous roar ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne


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