Planking

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Planks considered as a group.
  • n. An object or structure made of planks.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A series of planks; a group of planks.
  • n. The practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act.
  • v. Present participle of plank.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.
  • n. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The operation of laying down planks or of covering with planks.
  • n. Planks considered collectively, as in a floor; a piece of work made up of planks; specifically, in ship-building, the skin or covering of wooden timbers on the outer and inner surfaces of the ribs, and upon the beams. A strake is a line of planking. Wales are strakes of thick planking. See cut under beam.
  • n. In spinning, the splicing together of slivers of long-stapled wool. See breaking-frame.
  • n. One of the finishing operations in felting hats.
  • n. In a steam-cylinder, the lagging or clothing.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship)
  • n. the work of covering an area with planks
  • n. planks collectively; a quantity of planks
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    covering    manual labor    manual labour    timber    lumber   
    Variant
    plank   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    plank    berthing    skin    compartition   
    Verb Stem
    plank   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Nanking    banking    blanking    clanking    cranking   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    plank    paneling    floorboard    pilings    slat   
     
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