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A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.

An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together. Craig.

A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.

In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.

A broad, triangular piece of plank placed upon the fluke to give it a better hold in soft ground. -- Shoe block (Naut.), a block with two sheaves, one above the other, and at right angles to each other. -- Shoe bolt, a bolt with a flaring head, for fastening shoes on sleigh runners. -- Shoe pac, a kind of moccasin.…

A plank fixed beneath an object, as beneath the rudder of a vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end of a shore or the like.

The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing. Skin friction, Skin resistance (Naut.), the friction, or resistance, caused by the tendency of water to adhere to the immersed surface (skin) of a vessel. -- Skin gr…

An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.

strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.

ke implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. [Cant]

A curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel. R. H. Dana, Jr.

To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.

The planking from the waterways up to the port sills. Totten.

from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.

The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.

, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.

in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc. -- Stop plank, one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works. -- Stop valve, a valve that can be closed or opened at will, as by hand, for preventing or regulating flow, as of a liquid in a pipe; -- in dis…

In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.

One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.

An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.