Hypertext Webster Gateway: "planing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Plane \Plane\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Planed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Planing}.] [Cf. F. planer, L. planare, fr. planus. See
{Plane}, a., {Plain}, a., and cf. {Planish}.]
1. To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of
the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by
the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
2. To efface or remove.
He planed away the names . . . written on his
tables. --Chaucer.
3. Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. [R.]
What student came but that you planed her path.
--Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Planing \Plan"ing\,
a. & vb. n. fr. {Plane}, v. t.
{Planing machine}.
(a) See {Planer}.
(b) A complex machine for planing wood, especially boards,
containing usually a rapidly revolving cutter, which
chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to
be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus.
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