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Definition of Plank down
1. Verb. Drop heavily.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plank Down
Literary usage of Plank down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Why,' says he, 'shell out and plank down a pile of dollars.' 1856. Southern Sketches,
163. Come, PLANK UP the tin. 1886-96. ..."
2. The Coal and Metal Miners' Pocketbook of Principles, Rules, Formulas, and Tables by Thomas J. Foster (1905)
"The ropes keep the plank from being lost, and 'the opening can be closed again
by passing the plank down into the water to one side of the opening and ..."
3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1893)
"While placed with the plank down and stationary, and in use by fellow workmen in
landing upon the floor of an upper story heavy planks hoisted by a block ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"NY Evening Post, Feb. 22. Plank. See PLATFORM. Plank, plank down, Plank up.
To pay in cash, ... 1851 He would " plank down " the very ..."
5. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"I 've had to plank down handsome, and do the thing genteel; but Mr. Landlord found
he had no ... Why, says he, shell out, and plank down a pile of dollars. ..."
6. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Why,' says he, 'shell out and plank down a pile of dollars.' 1856. Southern Sketches,
163. Come, PLANK UP the tin. 1886-96. ..."
7. The Coal and Metal Miners' Pocketbook of Principles, Rules, Formulas, and Tables by Thomas J. Foster (1905)
"The ropes keep the plank from being lost, and 'the opening can be closed again
by passing the plank down into the water to one side of the opening and ..."
8. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1893)
"While placed with the plank down and stationary, and in use by fellow workmen in
landing upon the floor of an upper story heavy planks hoisted by a block ..."
9. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"NY Evening Post, Feb. 22. Plank. See PLATFORM. Plank, plank down, Plank up.
To pay in cash, ... 1851 He would " plank down " the very ..."
10. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"I 've had to plank down handsome, and do the thing genteel; but Mr. Landlord found
he had no ... Why, says he, shell out, and plank down a pile of dollars. ..."
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