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Definition of Planks
1. plank [v] - See also: plank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Planks
Literary usage of Planks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"In such a case the leaving of the planks unfastened is ordinarily not an act of
negligence on the part of the master. [Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Master ..."
2. The Design and Construction of Dams: Including Masonry, Earth, Rock-fill by Edward Wegmann (1899)
"18 shows the plan of a very simple outlet of masonry which contains simply a
double set of grooves in the masonry side walls for stop-planks, and has no ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"Master and servant — suitable appliances — planks containing nails. 3. A master
does not violate his duty to furnish suitable appliances for the use of his ..."
4. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1908)
"In laying a deck, care is, of course, observed to place the best side of the
planks uppermost, for small surface shakes or knots, when below, ..."
5. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"planks IN THE 1920 PLATFORM FOR COMMUNITY CARE OF DELINQUENT CHILDREN Calvin
Derrick, Chairman, Subcommittee on Delinquent Children, Trenton, ..."
6. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1922)
"All the minor parties as a rule put planks for woman suffrage in their plat forms.2
... 1 For a full account of the effort to obtain planks in the national ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The ends of the different planks forming one strake were made to butt on one
beam, and, as the fastenings are driven close to the ends, they did not possess ..."
8. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"In such a case the leaving of the planks unfastened is ordinarily not an act of
negligence on the part of the master. [Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Master ..."
9. The Design and Construction of Dams: Including Masonry, Earth, Rock-fill by Edward Wegmann (1899)
"18 shows the plan of a very simple outlet of masonry which contains simply a
double set of grooves in the masonry side walls for stop-planks, and has no ..."
10. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"Master and servant — suitable appliances — planks containing nails. 3. A master
does not violate his duty to furnish suitable appliances for the use of his ..."
11. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1908)
"In laying a deck, care is, of course, observed to place the best side of the
planks uppermost, for small surface shakes or knots, when below, ..."
12. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"planks IN THE 1920 PLATFORM FOR COMMUNITY CARE OF DELINQUENT CHILDREN Calvin
Derrick, Chairman, Subcommittee on Delinquent Children, Trenton, ..."
13. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1922)
"All the minor parties as a rule put planks for woman suffrage in their plat forms.2
... 1 For a full account of the effort to obtain planks in the national ..."
14. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The ends of the different planks forming one strake were made to butt on one
beam, and, as the fastenings are driven close to the ends, they did not possess ..."
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