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PLANK
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places (the two main ones being in Derbyshire and Lancashire) named with Old English bēam ‘tree’, ‘beam’ + ford ‘ford’, i.e. a ford beside a plank bridge for those who wished to keep their feet dry.
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Norse
Old Norse name composed of the elements skÃð "plank or stick of wood" and blaðnir "blade, leaf," hence perhaps "wood leaf" or wood blade." In mythology, this is the name of the magical ship of Freyr, said to be the best of ships.Â
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English spong ‘narrow strip of land’, or a habitational name from Spong Farm in Elmstead, Kent, which is named with this word.Swedish : topographic or ornamental name from spång ‘footbridge’, ‘plank’.
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English
English : variant of Brach 2, the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.Probably a partly Americanized form of Swiss German Bretscher, an occupational name for a sawyer, from Brett ‘plank’, ‘board’ + scher, a reduced form of Scherer ‘cutter’, a derivative of scheren ‘to cut’, ‘sever’.
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English
English : possibly a habitational name from Felbrigg in Norfolk, named with Old Scandinavian fjǫl ‘board’, ‘plank’ + Old English brycg ‘bridge’.
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English (chiefly Berkshire)
English (chiefly Berkshire) : from Middle English planke ‘plank’ (Late Latin planca). It is not clear how this word was applied as a surname: it may be a topographic name for someone who lived near a plank bridge over a stream, a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, or a nickname for a thin person.North German : nickname for a cantankerous person, from Middle Low German plank ‘quarrel’, ‘discord’.North German : metonymic occupational name from Middle Low German plank ‘measure for liquids’.South German : topographic name from Middle High German plank ‘plank’, ‘palisade’.South German : nickname for a fair-haired person, from a variant of Middle High German blanc ‘light’, ‘shining’.
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English
English : from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English clēofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher.English : topographic name from Middle English cleve ‘bank’, ‘slope’ (from the dative of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.Americanized spelling of German Kliewer or Klüver (see Kluver).
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English
English : habitational name from a place now in Greater London, so called from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk’, ‘plank bridge’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
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German
German : occupational name for a sawyer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German dille, dil ‘plank’, ‘(floor)board’.German : habitational name for someone from any of various places named Dill, Dille, or Till.English : occupational name for a grower of dill, from an agent derivative of Old English dile (see Dill 2).
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English
English : habitational name from Platt or Platt Bridge in Lancashire, named in Middle English with Old French plat ‘flat’, ‘thin’ (see Platte), in the dialect sense ‘plank bridge’.English : topographic name from Middle English plat ‘plot of land’, ‘piece of ground’ (Old English plætt).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from German platt ‘flat’.German : variant of Platte 3.
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English
English : from Old English bord ‘board’, ‘plank’, ‘table’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter or a topographic name for someone who lived in a plank-built cottage.
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : occupational name for a carpenter or a topographic name for someone who lived in a plank-built cottage (see Board).
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n.
One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform.
n.
The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.
n.
Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
n.
A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
v.
The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
n.
The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
v. t.
To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager.
a.
Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.
v. t.
To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Plank
n.
The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.
v. t.
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
n.
The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.
n.
A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.
imp. & p. p.
of Plank
n.
One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
v. t.
To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship.
a.
Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.
n.
The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.
n.
A piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad.