foreplane

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of planes which are commonly termed "bench-planes," comprising the foreplane, smoothing plane, jack plane, jointer, &c.

Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Peter C. Welsh

Every carpenter who shaves with a foreplane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor.

Uses of Great Men 1914

The carpenter dresses his plank—the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp;

Walt Whitman 1900

Whether the pyramid is in perspective or one described on the foreplane of

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

Christ occupies one side of the canvas, the disciples following along the foreplane toward him.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

Instead of a multiplicity of lines crossing the foreplane, the barest suggestion suffices to designate plowed ground, the absence of detail allowing greater force to the distant groups.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

The foreplane of trees, with branches which interlaced at the top, made, with the addition of a stone wall below, an encasement for the picture proper, which lay beyond.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

A fault in construction is frequently seen in the lack of simplicity of foreplane and background.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

Behold the slain messengers shaken into less recumbent and more tragic attitudes, arranged along the foreplane of the picture; let all the leading lines be reversed; make them antagonistic to the principles upon which the picture was constructed.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855