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Planking

noun

Planks collectively; a quantity of planks.

(nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship).

The work of covering an area with planks.

Plank

verb

(past & past part. planked; pres. part. planking)

Cover with planks. Synonym: plank over.

Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise. Synonyms: flump, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down. "He planked himself into the sofa"

Cook and serve on a plank. "Planked shad"

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"Planking" Quotes from Famous Books

... characteristic anecdotes of the wild pranks of the German students at the university. He was, I think, in some way related to descendants of Count Orloff, who was so remarkably strong and compact of muscle that he could push an iron spike, with his thumb, to its head in the sides or planking of a vessel. ...

— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

... don't take a horse along," suggested Tom, "then I take it that we are not going to carry any planking for a tent floor." ...

— The High School Boys' Fishing Trip • H. Irving Hancock

... quite at their safety; and they readily abandon any undertaking if they see that it will be costly to them. That care and attention, which govern their boat-building, cause their ships to sail like birds, while ours are like lead in this regard. The planking that they use is very thin, and has no other nails, crotches, or knees than a little rattan. Rattan is the substance which here takes the place of hemp, in tying things together, some planks [in the craft] being tied together with it. ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin

... could utter another word, his legs were cut from under him by the sweeping blow of a handspike, and he fell with a crash to the deck, the back of his head striking so violently on the planking as to momentarily stun him. In an instant a belaying-pin was thrust between his teeth and secured there with a lashing of spun-yarn; and then, before he had sufficiently recovered to realise his position, he was turned over on his face, his arms drawn behind him, and ...

— The Voyage of the Aurora • Harry Collingwood

... up at the moment, one foot on the gunwale, the other on the planking behind me, carelessly balancing myself while I stared across the sea in search of some object which he—this man that I trusted so thoroughly and in whose company I had spent so many pleasant hours that ...

— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher

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