Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In carpentry, a plane intermediate in length and use between the jack-plane and the long plane. See cuts under
plane .
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Examples
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Every carpenter who shaves with a fore-plane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor.
Representative Men 2006
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These four planes, the jack-plane, the fore-plane, the jointer, and the smooth-plane, are essentially alike, and directions for the use of one apply to all.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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The _fore-plane_, 22 "to 26" long, and the _jointer_, 28 "to 30" long, are large planes, similar to the jack-plane, except that the cutting edge is straight.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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"The tongue of his fore-plane whistles its wild ascending lisp;" or how lovingly listened to the nocturne of the mockingbird to have turned it into words in "A Word out of the Sea"!
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879
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Carpenters, in using the fore-plane, draw it towards them instead of pushing it from them.
Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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Carpenters, in using the fore-plane, draw it towards them instead of pushing it from them.
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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For school use, where the jack-plane is used for all purposes, the cutter is usually ground almost straight and only the corners rounded as in the smooth-plane and the fore-plane. [
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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This photograph shows clearly the hinged ailerons fixed at the extremities of the plane-ends for maintaining lateral stability: also the rear elevating plane (which acts in conjunction with the fore-plane mounted on outriggers at the front of the machine) and the twin rudders.]
Learning to Fly A Practical Manual for Beginners Claude Grahame-White 1919
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