plank : Idioms & Phrases

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Gang board, ∨ Gang plank

  • . (Naut.) (a) A board or plank, with cleats for steps, forming a bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel. (b) A plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist, for the sentinel to walk on.
Webster 1913

Gang plank

  • . See Gang board (above).
Webster 1913

garboard plank

  • noun the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship
    garboard strake; garboard.
WordNet

Hub plank

  • (Highway Bridges), a horizontal guard plank along a truss at the height of a wagon-wheel hub.
Webster 1913

Pile plank

  • (Hydraul. Eng.), a thick plank used as a pile in sheet piling. See Sheet piling, under Piling.
Webster 1913

plank down

  • verb drop heavily
    plonk down; plump down.
WordNet

plank over

  • verb cover with planks
    plank.
    • The streets were planked
WordNet

Plank road, ∨ Plank way

  • a road surface formed of planks. U.S.
Webster 1913

plank-bed

  • noun a bed of boards (without a mattress)
WordNet

plank-sheer

Plank"-sheer` noun
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  1. (Shipbuilding) The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.
Webster 1913

Planked shad

  • shad split open, fastened to a plank, and roasted before a wood fire.
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Stop plank

  • one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works.
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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.
  • to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. Bartlett.
Webster 1913

Wrest plank

  • (Piano Manuf.), the part in which the wrest pins are inserted.
Webster 1913