Definition of Plank

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Definition of Plank

Plank

A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.

Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer.

One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform.

To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship.

To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager.

To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.

To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.

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Plank Quotations

I'm as thick as a plank.
Princess Diana

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
Billy Sunday

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
James Longstreet

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.
David R. Brower

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
Edward Young

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.
Graham Coxon

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
Harry Dean Stanton

Plank Translations

plank in Dutch is tablet, plank, bord
plank in Finnish is taulu
plank in German is Bohle, Brett
plank in Latin is tabula
plank in Portuguese is prancha
plank in Swedish is planka

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