Pirates may make someone walk it

Usage examples of plank.

Yet you, a wretched sleeper, with only a thin plank of wood between you and the affray, hear nothing, absolutely nothing.

The five men walked together towards the motor-barge, while the tall blond bargee set out to meet them along the plank that connected it with the bank.

When he is half dead with the beating, they lay him down on his plank bedstead and cover him over with his pelisse.

When he had been well beaten they would wrap him up in his pelisse, and throw him upon his plank bedstead, leaving him to digest his drink.

The officer on duty took him to the civil prison and pointed out the place where his plank bedstead would stand.

His plan of salvation was so narrow, that, like a plank in a tempestuous sea, it could avail no sinner but himself, who bestrode it triumphantly, and hurled anathemas against the wretches whom he saw struggling with the billows of eternal death.

Even so, one of the mares had panicked and kicked a hole in the planking not far above the water line and the entire crew, mac Calma included, had been called to put their backs into baling to keep the merchantman afloat for the last leagues of the journey.

On these a number of loose planks were placed, and on the planks lay the bodies of the metif woman and her child.

Deck planks buckled and split around the midmast as it swelled in its narrow socket.

It was home-made, of course, but running my hand curiously over the rough, sun-worn surface of the wood, I found each morticed joint as tight as any boatyard could have made them, the planking copper-fastened and neatly stopped below the paint.

It was only as he was setting foot upon the plank and beginning gingerly to pick his way across it, that we discerned the outlines of the familiar form, and realised the dreadful truth that the stranger whom we had taken for the advance guard of our enemy was in truth none other than Vicar Pinfold, and that it was the rhythmic pat of his stick which we heard mingling with his footfalls.

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.