jack-plane

In his labours he had the help of a friendly digger — a carpenter by trade — who one evening, pipe in mouth, had stood to watch his amateurish efforts with the jack-plane.

Australia Felix 2003

In a smooth-plane 1/32 inch is enough, in a jack-plane 1/8 inch is often desirable.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

The _smooth-plane_, 5-1/2 "to 10" long, is a short plane, similar to the jack-plane, except that the cutting edge is straight.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

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

The next Saturday he earned a dollar with a jack-plane; at the end of his college term he had paid his way and had seven dollars left.

Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain

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

Yet no New Englander among them was more democratic than the son of plain 'Farmer George' who used often in Halifax "to put his own hand to the jack-plane and drive the cross-cut saw."

Canadian Cities of Romance 1922

Among them was a young Presbyterian missionary whom he met for the first time on the hillside, engaged on a squared log with a big jack-plane.

Prescott of Saskatchewan Harold Bindloss 1905

The mechanics arming, (the trowel, the jack-plane, the blacksmith’s hammer, tost aside with precipitation;)

Drum-Taps 1900

Perhaps if you got a jack-plane and planed the walls off it would suffice.

The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces John Kendrick Bangs 1892