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plank

[plangk] / plæŋk /
NOUN
board
Synonyms


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Rhys: I don’t do much with Instagram but my algorithm is generally older men showing you how to kind of spile a garboard plank next to a keel, things like that.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Though Alicia emerged victorious, Christiane held a plank for over three minutes, arms trembling and gritting her teeth.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Rahela Begum survived the horrors of war in Myanmar and life in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh -- only to end up drifting at sea, clinging to a wooden plank.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

The man eventually used a wooden plank to guide the bear out of the truck, allowing both to walk away unharmed.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

We were ordered to grab hold at the end of the nearest plank.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

Hewing is the ancient art of cutting logs into beams or planks for timber frames.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

In the beginning, Peck says it was easy to find trees and hire a mobile sawmill to cut them into planks.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 8, 2026

That is why I focus on simple exercises—hip mobility work, glute strengthening, planks, anti-rotation moves like Pallof presses, and upper-back rotation drills.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 6, 2026

For the Tanglewood strategist, though, most of the planks in the investment rationale remain intact.

From MarketWatch Mar. 27, 2026

Aunt Goldie dropped her ice-cream spoon onto the porch planks.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

"Bee" is one of the very few remaining Stroma yoles – a small open-decked boat with a planked hull - that once served the now abandoned island off the northern mainland.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2025

I planked on the lake shore and did box jumps onto the deck steps.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2022

I’ve never planked or lunged, to my knowledge.

From Washington Post Nov. 16, 2018

And most importantly, will we still be amusingly able to closely approximate it by tossing a gazillion nails on a wood planked floor?

From Slate Mar. 13, 2015

The floor is planked with rough boards, and in places I can see clear through to the ground below.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Bee was built using age-old clinker planking techniques for a co-operative of crofters from Stroma which sits between Orkney and the mainland.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2025

What they brought was a piece of brick that was likely part of the ship’s steam boiler, and planking from its hull.

From Seattle Times Dec. 25, 2022

“It’s a meme,” he explains, like planking or owling.

From New York Times Jun. 20, 2022

The skyward soar of its fir and pine planking makes its setting in the woods feel natural in two senses.

From Washington Post Jul. 2, 2021

Two of the men lowered over the side the seven small leather trunks that held all of Kit’s belongings and piled them, one beside the other, on the wet planking.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare




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