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planking

[ UK /plˈæŋkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫæŋkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship)
  2. planks collectively; a quantity of planks
  3. the work of covering an area with planks

How To Use planking In A Sentence

  • Old, but not self consciously so, the Horseshoe Bar has a well-worn wooden counter for planking those weary elbows.
  • Instead of planking, which is highly dangerous, they're practicing something that is not only safe and family friendly, but something that is deeply connected to prayer and to God. Rabbi Joshua Hess: Embracing 'Tebowing'
  • In one corner of the room he pried up the tiles of the flooring for the space of a square foot, and cut away the planking underneath, leaving nothing but some thin lath and plaster between them and the room below. Jacqueline of the Carrier-Pigeons
  • The outer edge was stone flooring, but the centre was wooden planking, with a table right in the middle.
  • The fragments include slabs of planking, ribs, stem posts, a keel, even part of a rudder, as well as used and unused vessel fastenings.
  • The bare concrete received two or three coats of PVA sealer today and then, last thing, the first of the vinyl planking was laid in a broad strip down the centre of the hallway.
  • Four new groynes - timber planking walls running down the beach towards the water - will help trap sand and give greater protection to the base of the wall.
  • Flying clouds of spray from the bow wave made the wooden planking on the deck slippery as it drifted across the boat.
  • This is a carvel-built boat; that is, her planking runs fore and aft, The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton
  • Timber would have to be cut and planed and the planking would be steamed to create the curvature needed for a hull.
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