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a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work
How To Use carpenter's plane In A Sentence
- Elizabethans, and Milton to Auden and Dylan Thomas, an elaborate tradition discernible in lavish metaphor and luxurious sound and rhythm, the second a domestic ageless tradition, an elementary language where, like a new Adam, the poet gives things their names, perceiving how the speech sounds take shape - as in a passage in the autobiographical Another Life: I watched the vowels curl from the tongue of the carpenter's plane,/resinous, fragrant ... Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 - Presentation Speech
