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Planch :: Planch (n.) A plank.

Wringbolt :: Wringbolt (n.) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt..

Weatherboard :: Weatherboard (n.) A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water..

Toed :: Toed (a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing..

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..

But :: But (v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.

Straight-lined :: Straight-joint (a.) In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge..

Doorstep :: Doorstep (n.) The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints..

Poling :: Poling (n.) One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc..

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

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

Slab :: Slab (n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc..

Syphilide :: Syphering (n.) The lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead..

Madrier :: Madrier (n.) A plank to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down..

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

List :: List (n.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board..

Stealing :: Stealer (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.

Plank :: Plank (v. t.) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting..

Seam :: Seam (n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc..

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