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plank
[ plangk ]
noun
- a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- lumber in such pieces; planking.
- something to stand on or to cling to for support.
- any one of the stated principles or objectives comprising the political platform of a party campaigning for election:
They fought for a plank supporting a nuclear freeze.
verb (used with object)
- to lay, cover, or furnish with planks.
- to bake or broil and serve (steak, fish, chicken, etc.) on a wooden board.
plank
1/ ±è±ôæŋ°ì /
noun
- a stout length of sawn timber
- something that supports or sustains
- one of the policies in a political party's programme
- walk the plankto be forced by pirates to walk to one's death off the end of a plank jutting out over the water from the side of a ship
- slang.a stupid person; idiot
verb
- to cover or provide (an area) with planks
- to beat (meat) to make it tender
- to cook or serve (meat or fish) on a special wooden board
plank
2/ ±è±ôæŋ°ì /
verb
- tr to hide; cache
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of plank1
Origin of plank2
Idioms and Phrases
- walk the plank,
- to be forced, as by pirates, to walk to one's death by stepping off a plank extending from the ship's side over the water.
- to relinquish something, as a position, office, etc., under compulsion:
We suspect that the new vice-president walked the plank because of a personality clash.
More idioms and phrases containing plank
see walk the plank .Example Sentences
The central plank of those reforms are ambitious mandatory targets for every local authority, to grant more planning permissions.
The skids are situated in the underfloor wooden plank, which also has a minimum depth for the same reason.
Consider an attempted return to the great-power politics of the Victorian age as the final plank in Donald Trump’s remaking of American foreign policy.
"We've been running and singing and holding the plank and singing," Downer says.
It is then heated up and pushed into a mould before being cut into planks and sent upstairs to be made into furniture.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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