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A tool used in machining fields, especially milling, to aid in setup. It is a block of steel that is precisely squared and parallel whose sides are 1, 2, and 3 inches long, respectively. May contain arranged holes. Similar, larger blocks are called 2-4-6 blocks.
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(metallurgy) The process of welding two pieces of metal together using the heat generated by an electric arc between two electrodes.
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To weld using an arc created by electricity.
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The angle to which a joiner's tool is ground away.
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A woodworking tool used to join two pieces of wood together, having a small circular saw blade to cut a crescent-shaped slot (the "mouth") in the opposite edges of the two pieces; a biscuit (thin oval wafer of material) is then glued into this slot to join the pieces.
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Synonym of biscuit joiner (“woodworking tool”)
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A lathe for turning irregular forms after a given pattern, such as lasts, gunstocks, etc.
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(Britain, New Zealand, Australia) A solid putty-like adhesive, originally blue in colour, used to secure items to walls and other surfaces.
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A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
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(woodworking) Alternative form of buhl [(woodworking) A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works.]
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A machine that separates one-part continuous form paper into individual sheets along the transverse perforations.
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A style of assembled wood (often sugar maple, teak, or walnut) used as heavy duty chopping blocks, table tops, and cutting boards.
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To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
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A person who caulks various structures (as ships) and certain types of piping.
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(machining) That cuts or forms a material without producing chips.
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(carpentry) A plane, convex in the direction of its length on the underside, for smoothing the concave faces of curved woodwork.
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(US) Lumber that is finished/planed and cut to standardized width and depth specified in inches.
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One who or that which dovetails.
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The use of dowels in manufacture.
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A plane for making a rabbet.
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A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs.
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A mortar fillet at the junction of the chimney stack and the roof; superseded in modern times by lead flashing.
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Alternative form of grip tape [Sandpaper with an adhesive on one side, used to provide added friction for skateboards, sports clubs and bats, etc.]
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A general-purpose bench plane, used for general sizing of wood and for smoothing or straightening edges.
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Alternative spelling of jack plane [A general-purpose bench plane, used for general sizing of wood and for smoothing or straightening edges.]
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A woodworking machine used to prepare edges of wooden elements to join to other wood pieces.
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(woodworking) The largest kind of plane used by a joiner.
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A plane used for final flattening out of wooden surfaces.
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Obsolete spelling of jointer [(literally) One that joints.]
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A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
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(tools, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
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Work produced on a lathe.
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(carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
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A plank or beam used for supporting the earth in mines or fortifications.
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(US) Alternative spelling of mitre box [A wood working appliance used to guide a handsaw or backsaw for making precise cuts, usually 45° and 90° mitre cuts. The mitre boxes are made of wood or plastic.]
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A square board, with a handle, on which mortar or plaster is carried: a hawk.
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(carpentry) One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
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An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels.
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A machine for dressing panels and feathering their edges to fit them to the grooves in the stiles.
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A wooden floor made of parquetry.
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A cold-rolling process used in the shaping of metal tube and pipe. It involves two circular dies, with an uneven u-shape along the circumferential axis, being brought into contact with a large pipe. The dies are rolled backwards and forwards to apply pressure all around the pipe, to reduce its diameter to the desired size.
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A woodworking tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
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(transitive) To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.
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(aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
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The movable table of a planer or other machine tool, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool.
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A joiner's plane for making grooves.
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A type of heavy roller, especially as used in papermaking.
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A mechanical device that cuts complex, irregular shapes by tracing a pattern.
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A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used for flooring or construction.
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(archaic) A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.
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A concave-soled plane used in making beads.
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A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
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A joint made between surfaces of iron by filling the space between them with a wet mixture of cast-iron borings, sal ammoniac, and sulfur, which by oxidation becomes hard and impervious to steam, water, etc.
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(metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
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A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, placed on a floor to be covered with concrete, a wall to be plastered, etc., as a guide for producing a smooth, flat surface.
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A person who lays floor screeds
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(engineering) The separation of molds from their flask, the castings from the molding sand, and potentially the cores from the castings.
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An industrial machine (similar in principle to a roller-type pasta machine) that produces a sheet of dough, fondant etc. of a regular thickness.
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A kind of milling machine specialized to develop flat surfaces.
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(engineering) A tool used to make a mortise, or to shape the sides of an aperture.
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A reciprocating machine tool used to cut mortises and to shape openings.
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A plane for cutting deep grooves in mouldings.
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A machine tool for cutting grooves, key seats, or slots; a slotting machine.
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(construction) All the steel components of a structure.
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A square foot of timber as a building material
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(sometimes attributive) A tool with which one grates, rasps, planes, or shaves material, especially wood, to form its surface.
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(carpentry) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
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(chiefly attributive) One of the cutting tools and forming dies used by machine tools.
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Alternative spelling of toolpath [(machining) The path through space that the tip of a cutting tool follows on its way to producing the desired geometry of the workpiece.]
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(machining) The path through space that the tip of a cutting tool follows on its way to producing the desired geometry of the workpiece.
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a type of machine used to smooth a mould surface, thus putting a finishing touch on it.
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The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe.
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A splitter; a device used to split a single jack into two.
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