Hobel — meaning in English

English meaning

• plane noun An aircraft; an airplane.
• planer noun A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
• slicer noun A machine or tool used to cut something into slices.

Senses

Hobel is used for these senses in English:

• plane (countable, carpentry) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
• slicer Someone or something that slices.

plane — full definition

1. noun An aircraft; an airplane.
2. noun A completely flat surface, especially in mathematics or physics.
3. noun A tool used to shave thin layers off wood to smooth or shape it.
4. adj Completely flat or level.

planer — full definition

1. noun A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
2. noun A person employed to use this kind of woodworking tool.
3. noun A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded b
4. noun A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.

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