Crossword-Solution: PLANK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plank | n. | A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board. |
| Plank | n. | Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer. |
| Plank | n. | One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform. |
| Plank | v. t. | To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship. |
| Plank | v. t. | To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager. |
| Plank | v. t. | To harden, as hat bodies, by felting. |
| Plank | v. t. | To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing. |
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Sentences with PLANK (5)
Peter had been removed for ever from his path, and all the other boys were in the brig, about to walk the plank.
Beside the station house there was a blue-grass plot, protected by a red plank fence, and six fly-bitten box-elder trees, not much larger than bushes, were kept alive by frequent hosings from the water plug.
Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged.
There ain’t no hurry; le’s keep on looking around.” Betwixt the hut and the fence, on the back side, was a lean-to that joined the hut at the eaves, and was made out of plank.
Here was Cold cañón, where invariably, winter and summer, a chilly wind was blowing; here was where the road to Spencer's branched off; here was Bussy's old place, where at one time there were so many dogs; here was Delmue's cabin, where unlicensed whiskey used to be sold; here was the plank bridge with its one rotten board; and here the flat overgrown with manzanita, where he once had shot three quail.
Quotes with PLANK (3)
Pirate Captain Jim" Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim" But Captain Jim, I cannot swim.""Then you must steer us through the gale.""But Captain Jim, I cannot sail.""Then down with the galley slaves you go.""But Captain Jim, I cannot row.""Then you must be the pirate's clerk.""But Captain Jim, I cannot work.
I stepped from Plank to Plank So slow and cautiously The Stars about my Head I felt, About my Feet the Sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch — This gave me that precarious Gait Some call Experience.
Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 94 times in crossword archives (1947–2024).