Synonyms for plank
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : plangk |
| Phonetic Transcription : plæŋk |
Définition of plank
Origin :- late 13c. (c.1200 as a surname), from Old North French planke, variant of Old French planche "plank, slab, little wooden bridge" (12c.), from Late Latin planca "broad slab, board," probably from Latin plancus "flat, flat-footed," from PIE *plak- (1) "to be flat" (see placenta). Technically, timber sawed to measure 2 to 6 inches thick, 9 inches or more wide, and 8 feet or more long. Political sense of "item of a party platform" is U.S. coinage from 1848. To walk the plank, supposedly a pirate punishment, is first attested 1789 and most early references are to slave-traders disposing of excess human cargo in crossing the ocean.
- noun board
- He slipped his arm off the plank and sank in the stream to the chin.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- Then he drew himself upon his plank and swam, doubling his speed.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- He wheeled it up to the side door, an' put a plank over the steps, an' wheeled it right in.
- Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
- A plank is found infected with it, and the whole structure is devoted.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- He states that they pierced a plank, an inch thick, with a bullet made of mercury.
- Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
- I know every timber and plank in her; there is not a rope nor a block but I can recognise.
- Extract from : « The Pirate and The Three Cutters » by Frederick Marryat
- The plank that is used to form the bottom of the boat is not gouged out.
- Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates
- It was pressed to pay, coaxed to plank down, soothered to shell out.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- They took out and replaced a piece of the plank, and proceeded on their voyage.
- Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey
- It is as in a shipwreck, where the plank that will save two will sink with three.
- Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
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