The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plank \Plank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planked; p. pr. & vb. n. Planking.]
To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship. ``Planked with pine.''
--Dryden.To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager. [Colloq. U.S.]
To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
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(Wooden Manuf.) To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
Planked shad, shad split open, fastened to a plank, and roasted before a wood fire.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: plank)
Usage examples of "planked".
She was wordlessly grateful that the foredeck was planked with wizardwood.
Now, the cracked stone planters were planked over as tables, or else spell-sealed as vault space to preserve rare scrolls on arcane practice.
Talith raised the mud-splashed hem of her habit and mounted the gritty, planked steps to the hall.
The wagons were lightened, the food, the tents, the supplies drawn across on strung ropes, then the carts laboriously lashed together and planked over as makeshift bridges.
A crude planked wardrobe stands in one corner, and the writing table has been strengthened with iron braces.
On the third night he again found a body in its winding sheet on the planked table.
The sidewalk was too congested with gossiping farmers, so he recrossed the planked ground to the porch sidewalk of the saloon and roadhouse.
She was wordlessly grateful that the foredeck was planked with wizardwood.
Vaguely Norman remembered the loosely planked platform, the packed cinders between it and the railway tracks.
The bottoms of both outriggers had been solidly planked, to afford sitting and standing space for the outboard banks of rowers, creating what was, in effect a triple hull.
They looked old and weather-beaten, but were strongly timbered, and three of them were planked with oak which Webber recognized as the strakes of a shipwrecked vessel.
A planked thrashing-floor first laid down in the parish this year, viz. at Merdon.
He got his bulldog pipe out, filled it slowly, looking with distaste at the shut window, the chipped enamel of the bed frame, the dirty, tumbled bedclothes, the wash bowl in the corner with two smeared towels hung over it, the bare dresser with half a bottle of gin planked on top of the Gideon Bible.
Nearby, McFarlane could see the Barrio de los Indios: a crooked assortment of planked houses and damp huts, tendrils of smoke rising from makeshift chimneys.
During one of the earlier nightshifts, before they had been outnumbered by the present crowd of dinks, Steve had fashioned two planked circles that fitted inside the buckets, creating a false bottom.