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plank

  [plangk]
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–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)
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).
—Idiom
8. walk the plank,
a. to be forced, as by pirates, to walk to one's death by stepping off a plank extending from the ship's side over the water.
b. to relinquish something, as a position, office, etc., under compulsion: We suspect that the new vice-president walked the plank because of a personality clash.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME planke < ONF < L planca board, plank. See planch

Related forms:
plankless, adjective
planklike, adjective
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plank   (plāngk)   
n.  

    1. A piece of lumber cut thicker than a board.

    2. Such pieces of lumber considered as a group; planking.

  2. A foundation; a support.

  3. One of the articles of a political platform.

tr.v.   planked, plank·ing, planks

  1. To furnish or cover with planks: plank a muddy pathway.

  2. To bake or broil and serve (fish or meat) on a plank: "Boards specially made for planking food have grooves . . . to hold juices" (Michael Stern).

  3. To put or set down emphatically or with force.


[Middle English, from Old North French planke, from Late Latin planca, from plancus, flat; see plāk-1 in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

plank

see walk the plank.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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