Definition of plank

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Plank (n.) Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer..

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Threshold :: Threshold (n.) The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door..
Petard :: Petard (n.) A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded..
Rotten :: Rotten (a.) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone..
Spirling :: Spirketing (n.) The planking from the waterways up to the port sills.
Lumber :: Lumber (n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber..
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc..
Masoola Boat :: Masoola boat () A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras, India. The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a wadding of the same material, so that the shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced..
But :: But (v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
Touch :: Touch (v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters..
String :: String (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it..
Doorstep :: Doorstep (n.) The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
Cleading :: Cleading (n.) The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc..
Planch :: Planch (n.) A plank.
Bore :: Bore (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank..
Madrier :: Madrier (n.) A plank or beam used for supporting the earth in mines or fortifications.
Madrier :: Madrier (n.) A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes.
Ceiling :: Ceiling (v. t.) The inner planking of a vessel.
Garboard :: Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake..
List :: List (n.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board..
Filling :: Filling (n.) That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc..
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