From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plank \Plank\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Planked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Planking}.]
1. To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship. ''Planked with pine.'' --Dryden.
2. To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager. [Colloq. U.S.]
3. To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
4. (Wooden Manuf.) To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
{Planked shad}, shad split open, fastened to a plank, and roasted before a wood fire.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.
2. The act of splicing slivers. See {Plank}, verb (used with an object), 4.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: planks collectively; a quantity of planks
2: (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship)
3: the work of covering an area with planks
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "planking": bank, beam, billet, board, boarding, border, broadside, cheek, chop, clapboard, coast, cord, cordwood, deal, driftwood, firewood, flank, hand, handedness, hardwood, haunch, hip, jowl, laterality, lath, lathing, lathwork, log, lumber, many-sidedness, multilaterality, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, plank, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, profile, puncheon, quarter, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shore, side, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, softwood, splat, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, temple, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, unilaterality, weatherboard, wood
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