Jackplane

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A woodworking tool with a slightly curved iron and sole used to remove material quickly when shaping or flattening wood
2. A carpenter's hand plane featuring a curved bottom and blade designed for aggressive stock removal and preliminary smoothing
3. A roughing plane with a convex sole that establishes the basic shape and form of wooden workpieces before finer finishing

Etymology: "Jackplane" is simply another spelling of "jack plane," the woodworking tool used to smooth rough timber after the first cuts. The word is a compound of the nouns "jack" and "plane." "Plane" comes from the Latin "planum," meaning a flat surface, and entered English through Old French. "Jack" in this sense is the everyday name for a general-purpose or medium-sized tool, as in "jack" applied to other workshop implements, indicating a tool of ordinary, all-purpose use. Because the compound is written as one word in this spelling, it reads as a single unit, with the two parts fused the way many English tool names are. The spelling appears as a variant of the two-word form, and the two forms refer to the same tool.

Synonyms: jack plane, jointer plane