Word Finder - planks

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A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.

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A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.

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Germanization was a central plank of German conservative thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.

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A stupid person, idiot.

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That which supports or upholds.

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To cover something with planking.

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to plank a floor or a ship

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To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.

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

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to plank money in a wager

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To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.

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

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To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.

The wooden planks were old and weathered, but felt solid enough.

The old pine planks have actually lasted quite well.

Planks are parallel-sided pieces of timber from 2 to 6 in.

Each span is formed by twelve or fourteen massive iron chains, with planks laid across them.

Some of them were digging, others were wheeling barrowloads of earth along planks, while others stood about doing nothing.

Sofi smiled, blue-silver eyes going to the llama that stuck its face between the wooden planks of the fence.

It may be supposed that originally the public roads, when worn by the cartage of the coal, were repaired by laying planks of timber at the bottom of the ruts, and that then the planks were laid on the surface of special roads or ways' formed between the collieries and the river.

The planks were of wood, often beech, a few inches wide, and were fastened down, end to end, on logs of wood, or " sleepers," placed crosswise at intervals of two or three feet.

The larger trees are sawn up into planks and battens, much used for the purposes of the builder, especially for flooring, joists and rafters.

In Canada, means of transport similar to those already described are employed, but the reservoirs for storage often consist of excavations in the soft Erie clay of the oil district, the sides of which are supported by planks.

As the prisoners, clad in penitential haircloth, were led across the bridge, wanton boys thrust sharp sticks between the planks to wound their feet.

A rectangular trough of boards, whose dimensions depend chiefly on the size of the planks available, is set up on the higher part of the ground at one side of the claim to be worked, upon trestles or piers of rough stone-work, at such an inclination that the stream may carry off all but the largest stones, which are kept back by a grating of boards about 2 in.

The villages of the Guajiros in the Gulf of Maracaibo are described by Goering as composed of houses with low sloping roofs perched on lofty piles and connected with each other by bridges of planks.

The exports from Batavia to the other islands of the archipelago, and to the ports in the Malay Peninsula, are rice, sago, coffee, sugar, salt, oil, tobacco, teak timber and planks, Java cloths, brass wares, &c., and European, Indian and Chinese goods.

Formerly, the logs were shipped as square timber, but now almost always in the form of deals, planks or laths; such square timber as is still shipped goes almost entirely to Great Britain.

The walls were formed either of stout planks laid together vertically or horizontally, or else of posts at a short distance from one another, the interstices being filled up with wattlework daubed with clay.

These vessels were made of planks well fitted and sewn together, the joints being caulked and pitched.'

The usual method is to saw a log into planks or boards by n g P y of Timber.

Planks are allowed from a half to two-thirds of the above time, according to their thickness.

The roof is sometimes of bamboo solely, and when split, which is accomplished with the greatest ease, it can be formed into laths or planks.

Steamers ply regularly in two directions from St Petersburg - to the monasteries of Konnevitz and Valamo, and to the mouth of the Svir, whence they go up that river to Lake Onega and Petrozavodsk; and small vessels transport timber, firewood, planks, iron, kaolin, granite, marble, fish, hay and various small wares from the northern shore to Schlusselburg, and thence to St Petersburg.

Lumber is floated down the rivers of the Carpathian watershed to the Danube, and so exported to Turkey and Bulgaria; casks, shaped planks and petroleum drums go chiefly to Austria and Russia.

The fine red fragrant heart-wood takes a high polish, and is much used in cabinet-work and inlaying, but the small size of the planks prevents its more extended use.

These boats are either plain dug-outs, with or without outriggers, or regularly built by planks tightly laced and well caulked to an excavated keel.

The press box first consisted of strongly bound oaken planks, but later on cast-iron boxes were introduced.

The idea of independent central banks has become one of the main planks of monetarist dogma.

Planks were laid on the roof then to " take more passengers â the first double-deckers.

By the time the rotting hulk landed, people were picking at the planks to find worms to eat.

Enough space was cleared of dirt and debris to lay planks on top of empty nail kegs, to seat possibly thirty persons.

He chops wood and saws the planks and he is a handsome man but he is dead.

In a new block of flats it is proposed to use precast concrete floor planks.

Poles to support the thatched roof rest on wooden planks on the inside edge of the wall.

All vessels were built in the clinker style, using overlapping planks fastened together with iron nails.

The seats are fixed with steel angles to precast concrete planks supported on steel beams to form a rake.

Sand ladders - 24 " x 12 " or two short scaffold planks 24 " x 9 " x 1.5.

In fact the walls were built on elm piles 12 to 15 feet deep, overlaid with oak planks in rows of four.

His wood yard is full of trees sawn into planks by local sawmills for air drying.

There are two main planks for getting cultural specificity.

The wood is very white, and, from its soft and even grain, is employed by turners and toy-makers, while, being tough and little liable to split, it is also serviceable for the construction of packing cases, the lining of carts and waggons, and many similar purposes; when thoroughly seasoned it makes good flooring planks, but shrinks much in drying, weighing about 58 lb per cubic foot when green, but only 331 lb when dry.

When the night arrived, to quote their own words--He laid us on the bed with himself and his wife, they at the one end and we at the other, it being only planks laid a foot from the ground and a thin mat upon them.

Then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge on his side of it.

They took him to the upper end of the field, where there were some sheds built of charred planks, beams, and battens, and led him into one of them.

And they caught all that and put it into a shed boarded up with planks!

We have carried a lot of scaffold planks up the hill.

I think Nikki is quite astute (bless her) whereas Glyn appears to me to be as thick as two short planks.

Curved side planks were stitched to the bottom of the boat with twisted yew withies.

To achieve this, pool tables are framed with mahogany hardwood planks and corner wood glue blocks rather than metal brackets.

Acclimate the flooring - Once you get the boxes of flooring planks home, you need to lay the boxes of planks flat and let them acclimate to the temperature of your home for 24 to 72 hours.

Do a dry run - Lay a few planks against the longest wall of the room to decide how you want the overall layout to look.

Once you've determined this, snap a straight chalk line to guide you when installing the first row of floor planks.