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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The slightly curved upper iron used in carpenters’ and joiners’ smoothing- or jack-planes which have wooden faces. It stiffens the plane-iron by a pressure applied close to and along the length of the cutting edge, and if very close to the latter may help to break the shaving in brittle woods.
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