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Pickwick comes to us from the age of oil lamps: when the wick burned down too low to give a good flame, it had to be raised, often by use of a sharp-pointed instrument designed expressly to do that, a pickwick .
Was a pickwick, then, the prototype of the sharp-profiled attachment on a plane?
The plane was equipped with a pickwick , a sharp distinctive cutting edge to gouge out the desired groove, and the term came to be applied to the wood as well as the tool.
Once again from the sawmill or more correctly the planing mill, the term pickwick in the following sense has nothing to do with Dickens.