[f. JACK sb.1 + PLANE.] A long heavy plane used by joiners for coarse work.
1812–6. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, I. 109. The jack-plane used by joiners, is generally about seventeen inches in length.
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 582. The jack-plane is used for taking away the rough occasioned by the saw, and removing all superfluous and other uneven parts.
1876. T. Hardy, Ethelberta (1890), 380. That comes from the jack-plane, and my pushing against it day after day and year after year.
Hence Jack-plane v. trans., to smooth with a jack-plane.
1872. ‘Mark Twain,’ Innoc. Abr., xii. 76. Surely the … smooth … turnpikes are jack-planed and sand-papered every day.
