Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 570
the plane, which part is meant to cut, it presents a right angle to the side of the plane, which part isnot meant to cut. Thus, if the parts of the iron of the square rebate-plane, which protrude throughthe sides of the stock, were sharpened ever so keenly, they would only scrape and not cut, just…
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