Sentence examples for planing from inspiring English sources

Planing mill, final processing plant for lumber.

It should be noted that, if the lumber is to be marketed as planed (dressed), it is sawed "oversize" in thickness to compensate for subsequent shrinkage and planing.

Shaping and planing operations involve the machining of flat surfaces, grooves, shoulders, T-slots, and angular surfaces with single-point tools.

The two main types of hulls used on motorboats are displacement hulls, which push through the water; and planing hulls, which skim across the water's surface.

Waterskiing, planing over the surface of the water on broad skilike runners while being towed by a motorboat moving at least 24 km/hr (15 mph).

The shops produced nothing themselves but performed any machining that was brought to them: sawing, spindle molding, fretting, turning, planing, and so on.

All-Honduran repair crews are up on ladders patching little green hip roofs in almost the same color, or are planing screen doors, or regrouting brick foundations after years of salt air.

But, he insists that his wife dress so they can spend an evening out as he had been nervously planing all day.

He drew them up and down along the edges of the bars of the vibraphone, making an icy, chordal, planing sound; he ended the down strokes with a bump, falling on the bars, smacking them with the heels of his hands.

Then, at 10 o'clock, Peter noticed swallows fighter-planing over the water downstream.

He also invented a metal-planing machine (1869), a gear cutter (1884), and a milling machine (1885).