PLANE

Definitions

1. 1. To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
2. 2. To efface or remove. He planed away the names . . . written on his tables. Chaucer.
3. 3. Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. [R.] What student came but that you planed her path. Tennyson.