Meaning & use
planing
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The process of smoothing or shaping a surface, especially wood, using a cutting tool called a plane; also, the skimming of a boat's hull across the surface of water.
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The carpenter spent an hour planing the rough edges of the tabletop.
Once the speedboat reached full throttle, it rose into planing across the lake.
A note on using this word
Has two distinct uses worth knowing: woodworking, where a plane shaves wood smooth, and boating, where a hull 'planes' by skimming rather than plowing through water.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
The action of a boat's hull rising and skimming across the surface of the water at speed.
The hull began planing once the boat exceeded twenty knots.
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