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handplane

handplane noun: a manually operated plane (woodworking tool).

Noun

handplane (plural handplanes)

  1. A manually operated plane (woodworking tool).
  2. Synonym of handboard (“board held in the hand or attached by a strap, used like a paddle when bodysurfing”).
    Synonyms:
    handboard

Verb

handplane (third-person singular simple present handplanes, present participle handplaning, simple past and past participle handplaned)

  1. (transitive) To smooth with a handplane (woodworking tool).
  2. (intransitive) Synonym of handboard (“to bodysurf using a handboard”).
    Synonyms:
    handboard

Synonyms of handplane

Forms of handplane

Noun
pluralhandplanes
Verb
third-person singular presenthandplanes
present participlehandplaning
past participlehandplaned
pasthandplaned

Origin of handplane

From hand + plane.

Questions about handplane

What does handplane mean?
Handplane means a manually operated plane (woodworking tool).
What part of speech is handplane?
Handplane can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of handplane?
The plural of handplane is handplanes.

Words near handplane in the dictionary

  1. handpicks out
  2. handpie
  3. handpiece
  4. handpieces
  5. handpies
  6. handplane
  7. handplaned
  8. handplanes
  9. handplaning
  10. handplant
  11. handplanted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: handplane (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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