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plank
[plangk] 
–noun
| 1. | a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board. |
| 2. | lumber in such pieces; planking. |
| 3. | something to stand on or to cling to for support. |
| 4. | any one of the stated principles or objectives comprising the political platform of a party campaigning for election: They fought for a plank supporting a nuclear freeze. |
–verb (used with object)
—Idiom| 5. | to lay, cover, or furnish with planks. |
| 6. | to bake or broil and serve (steak, fish, chicken, etc.) on a wooden board. |
| 7. | plunk (def. 2). |
| 8. | walk the plank,
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Related forms:
plankless, adjective
planklike, adjective
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| plank (plāngk) n.
[Middle English, from Old North French planke, from Late Latin planca, from plancus, flat; see plāk-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
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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.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.
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Language Translation for : plank
Spanish:
tabla, tablón,
German:
die Bohle,
Japanese:
板
plank
1206, from O.N.Fr. planke (O.Fr. planche) "plank, slab, little wooden bridge," from L.L. planca "broad slab, board," related to phalanga "pole to carry burdens," from Gk. phalange (see phalanx). Technically, timber sawed to measure 2 to 6 inches thick, 9 inches or more wide, and 8 feet or more long. Political sense of "item of a party platform" is U.S. coinage from 1848. To walk the plank, supposedly a pirate punishment, is first attested 1822 in Scott.
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plank
see walk the plank.
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