plank : Idioms & Phrases
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Gang board , ∨ Gang plank
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(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
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noun the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship
garboard strake; garboard.
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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. SeeSheet piling , underPiling .
Webster 1913
plank down
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verb drop heavily
plonk down; plump down.
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plank over
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verb cover with planks
plank.
- The streets were planked
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Plank road , ∨ Plank way
- a road surface formed of planks. U.S.
Webster 1913
plank-bed
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noun a bed of boards (without a mattress)
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plank-sheer
Plank"-sheer` noun
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(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.
Webster 1913
Stop plank
- one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works.
Webster 1913
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.