A type of joinery plane used in woodworking for smoothing and refining wooden surfaces.
From French baju or bajoire, likely from an Old French root related to tool-making. The exact origin is uncertain, but it appears to be a specialized woodworking term from medieval French craftsmen.
Bajoire shows how craft guilds across Europe had specialized names for tools that most people never see—entire vocabularies of work that existed only among skilled woodworkers.
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