A minor blemish in somebody’s character or conduct. One of Jesus’ plain pictures in the Sermon on the Mount, this adage advocate lowliness and a more noteworthy affectability to one’s very own transgression than to that of others. Jesus the craftsman would have been extremely acquainted with dust and planks. “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” Matthew 7:3 KJV