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UK
/plˈæŋkɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈpɫæŋkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫæŋkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship)
- planks collectively; a quantity of planks
- the work of covering an area with planks
How To Use planking In A Sentence
- It was built floor-by-floor using precast planking.
- But I have a hard time looking at other boats, especially those with exposed planking, a bowsprit and her sheerline.
- They sat on the back porch as morning breathed a frosty zephyr across the weathered planking.
- They had had to ram the boat into the bank in order to avoid being swept away - or sinking, since the planking proved far from watertight. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
- Slates had been falling from the roof and that recently builders had placed planking in the gutters at roof level to stop the slates falling to the ground below.
- The floors can also be differentiated by the size of the planks and the direction of the planking.
- Despite his chill, and despite his teeth that were already beginning to chatter while the burning sun extracted the moisture in curling mist-wreaths from the deck planking, Van Horn cuddled Jerry in his arms and called him princeling, and prince, and a king, and a son of kings. CHAPTER VII
- Aside from one minor mishap on 3 March that same year, when the boat hit the rocks and damaged some planking, the Raumiro and her crew sailed safely and well for many years.
- Such ships were robustly built with stout planking secured to massive framing timbers, with a single mast possibly rigged with a square sail.
- Knowing that the first fibers pulled off of the combs will be the longest, and having a goal of evenly mixed lengths of fibers in the finished product, I split this in half at the middle of the rope, lining up the first pulled off tip (longest fibers) with the first torn bit of the second half (midlength / shorter fibers), 'planking' them. Sock prØn.