fore plane

fore plane ExamplesWord Origin noun Carpentry.

a plane, intermediate in size between a jack plane and a jointer plane, used for preliminary smoothing.

Origin of fore plane First recorded in 1695–1705 Examples from the Web for fore plane Historical Examples of fore plane

Carpenters, in using the fore-plane, draw it towards them instead of pushing it from them.

Maturin M. Ballou

The fore-plane or trying-plane is longer and larger than the jack-plane.

Charles Gardner Wheeler

But when you gum the small cardboard weight to its fore-plane, the action of the model is changed.

Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper

The Wrights were, indeed, astonished at the celerity with which the glider responded to the fore-plane.

Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper

If you should use a jack-plane to do the work of a fore-plane, have it ground more squarely across like the fore-plane.

Charles Gardner Wheeler