joinery, an edged tool, or instrument for parting and shaving of wood smooth.

It consists of a piece of wood, very smooth at bottom, as a stock or shaft; in the middle of which is an aperture, through which a steel edge, or chisel, placed obliquely, passes; which being very sharp, takes off the inequalities of the wood it is slid along.

Plane-tree, in botany. See Platanus.