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Plank   /plæŋk/   Listen
noun
Plank  n.  
1.
A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.
2.
Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer. "His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot."
3.
One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform. (Cant)
Plank road, or Plank way, a road surface formed of planks. (U.S.)
To walk the plank, to walk along a plank laid across the bulwark of a ship, until one overbalances it and falls into the sea; a method of disposing of captives practiced by pirates.


verb
Plank  v. t.  (past & past part. planked; pres. part. planking)  
1.
To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship. "Planked with pine."
2.
To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager. (Colloq. U.S.)
3.
To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
4.
(Wooden Manuf.) To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
Planked shad, shad split open, fastened to a plank, and roasted before a wood fire.





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"Plank" Quotes from Famous Books



... black jaws parted to launch a thunderous warning. A guard was placed on deck; we were not allowed to send a boat ashore; not even permitted to communicate with the fishing-smack and rowboats that hovered around us, curious as gulls around a floating plank. ...
— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers
... a second warning blast, and the deck hands prepared to draw in the gang-plank. Rena flew into her mother's arms, and then, breaking away, hurried on board and retired to her state-room, from which she did not emerge during the journey. The window-blinds were closed, darkening the room, and the stewardess who came to ask if she should ...
— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt
... heart failure. Then there was to be a burial at sea. In the afternoon the clouds lifted from the sky. Toward the west the sun burned over the water, making a wake of fire from the boat to the utmost horizon. I took a last look at Dorothy, kissed her cold brow. Then she was wrapped with sheets on a plank weighted with iron, and taken to the stern of the boat. I stood near to see it all, with little Reverdy weeping as if his heart ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters
... him to walk several miles, to some neighbours hand mill, to grind it himself, under cover of night, when exhausted nature called for rest from the labours of the day; in many cases they received not an atom of animal food, and their usual bedding was a plank, or by particular kindness a ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various
... looked at him, and there was hell in his glance. Then, taking his resolve, and putting the best face upon it, since no other could help him here, he kicked off his shoes, peeled off his fine coat of biscuit-coloured taffetas, and climbed upon the plank. ...
— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini


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