Definition of Planks. Meaning of Planks. Synonyms of Planks

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Definition of Planks

Plank
Plank Plank, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planked; p. pr. & vb. n. Planking.] 1. To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship. ``Planked with pine.' --Dryden. 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.
Plank
Plank Plank, n. [OE. planke, OF. planque, planche, F. planche, fr. L. planca; cf. Gr. ?, ?, anything flat and broad. Cf. Planch.] 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. --Southey. 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.

Meaning of Planks from wikipedia

- Look up plank or gangplank in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plank or The Plank may refer to: Plank (wood), flat, elongated, and rectangular timber...
- primarily in carpentry, planks are critical in the construction of ships, houses, bridges, and many other structures. Planks also serve as supports to...
- Anna (25 July 2023). "Planks and wall sits best exercise for lowering blood pressure, study says". the Guardian. NEW: Longest Plank EVER! - Guinness World...
- A plank house is a type of house constructed by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, typically using cedar planks. The oldest plank house village...
- A plank road is a road composed of wooden planks or puncheon logs, as an efficient technology for traversing soft, marshy, or otherwise difficult ground...
- Ständerbohlenbau (post plank construction), Bohlenständerbau (plank post construction), and sometimes Bohlenwand Polish: sumikowo-łątkowa (planks - sumiki, sumikami...
- Charlotte Plank is an Australian-British singer. She has released three solo singles, and has also featured on the single "Dancing Is Healing" by Rudimental...
- Walking the plank was a method of execution practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers. For the amu****t of the perpetrators...
- Scott Chapman Plank (November 11, 1958 – October 24, 2002) was an American actor who pla**** Nick Reardon in Melrose Place, and as Wiley Farrell in Air...
- In topology, the Tychonoff plank is a topological space defined using ordinal spaces that is a counterexample to several plausible-sounding conjectures...