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/plˈæŋkɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Plank v. t. (past & past part. planked; pres. part. planking)

To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship. "Planked with pine."

To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager. (Colloq. U.S.)

To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.

(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.

noun

Planking n.

The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.

The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.

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"Planking" Quotes from Famous Books

... were sufficiently removed and shut out from the counting-house to blend into a busy hum, interspersed with periodical clinks and thumps. The patient figures at work were swarthy with the filings of iron and steel that danced on every bench and bubbled up through every chink in the planking. The workshop was arrived at by a step-ladder from the outer yard below, where it served as a shelter for the large grindstone where tools were sharpened. The whole had at once a fanciful and practical air in Clennam's ...

— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens

... such numbers as the Jarrah, its field of growth being limited. Its timber resembles that of the Jarrah, but cannot be wrought so easily, though for purposes of street-paving it is superior. It is this wood which is so extensively used in London. It is also of value for bridge planking, shafts, spokes, felloes, waggon ...

— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie

... the team coming had jumped from his seat and pulled his rig to the very edge of the planking. All might have gone well ...

— Andy the Acrobat • Peter T. Harkness

... close to my head, against the starboard bulkhead, came the sound, like two gentle "thuds" on the planking, causing a distinct tremor to thrill through ...

— Adventures in Many Lands • Various

... me on loans and discounts. Spite of every caution, however, we lost occasionally by bad loans, and worse by the steady depreciation of real estate. The city of San Francisco was then extending her streets, sewering them, and planking them, with three-inch lumber. In payment for the lumber and the work of contractors, the city authorities paid scrip in even sums of one hundred, five hundred, one thousand, and five thousand dollars. These formed a favorite collateral for loans at from fifty to ...

— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman

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