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Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks..

Treenail :: Treenail (n.) A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.

Driftpiece :: Driftpiece (n.) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail..

Wear :: Wear (n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water..

Plank :: Plank (n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See 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..

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..

Salt :: Salt (v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber..

Rail :: Rail (n.) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks..

Madrier :: Madrier (n.) A plank or beam used for supporting the earth in mines or fortifications.

Thick :: Thick (superl.) Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck..

Garboard :: Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake..

Deal :: Deal (n.) The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end..

Putlog :: Putlog (n.) One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose..

Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.

Wale :: Wale (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc..

Plough :: Plough (n.) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc..

Planch :: Planch (v. t.) To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank.

Panel :: Panel (n.) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted..

Plank :: Plank (n.) One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform..

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