How To Use Planking In A Sentence
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Old, but not self consciously so, the Horseshoe Bar has a well-worn wooden counter for planking those weary elbows.
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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'
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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
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The outer edge was stone flooring, but the centre was wooden planking, with a table right in the middle.
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The fragments include slabs of planking, ribs, stem posts, a keel, even part of a rudder, as well as used and unused vessel fastenings.
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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.
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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.
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Flying clouds of spray from the bow wave made the wooden planking on the deck slippery as it drifted across the boat.
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This is a carvel-built boat; that is, her planking runs fore and aft,
The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton
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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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She paddled her pool bed to the edge and climbed out onto the wood planking of the deck, grabbing her robe and pulled it on before she stepped through the patio doors into the kitchen.
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Leaning weakly against the wooden planking of the hall, I closed my eyes.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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The metal planking chinked underneath the boys' boots as the pair stepped onto the sub.
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Distracted, Luce stubbed her toe against a piece of raised planking and tripped.
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The waves roil mightily, and batter and strike the ship so that they crush both sides of the hull and the planking almost shatters.
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The hull planking is a lattice of crumbling wood over the more solid frames, allowing sunlight to shine enchantingly right through the wreck.
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According to Wikipedia, there are three meanings of "strake": 1. a strip of planking between them on the turn of the bilge; 2. a device for controlling air flow over an aircraft; and 3. a tool for tamping down and leveling semi-fluid materials into a mould (such as poured concrete, for example).
Divine Strake��Find another name . . . or Give It Up
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The yacht is built of cedar strip planking.
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Specimens trawled up in fishing nets have been seen to bite into wooden planking and crush the timber.
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The foremast had broken and sloped down to the seabed, but the funnel still stood and the wooden planking of the stern deck was intact and clean.
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Callinde rounded to weather with a shattering bang of sails, her lapstrake planking exposed broadside to the demon fleet.
Shadowfane
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Fairly solid-looking wooden deck planking is still attached to the deck.
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Sitting back on his heels, he felt along the rough planking that was sealed with turf on the other side.
MEDALON
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When his eye fell upon this his vivid imagination at once pictured it as in operation in a mill erected upon a spot which he had already recognised as most suitable for the purpose; and he saw, too, that now they need no longer be dependent upon the old ship-timber, full of bolt and trenail holes, for the timber and planking of their craft, as they would be enabled with the assistance of the saw to provide themselves with all the planking, and, indeed, timber of every description which would be necessary in their work, from the magnificent teak and other trees which grew in such abundance on the island.
The Missing Merchantman
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The intervening space between these pits at the shop end is floored with heavy planking, on which the wheels can be run from the wheeling tracks, and then into the machine shop.
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The wreck sinks into the silt just aft of her deck gun, where the rotten planking of her raised walkway can be seen, and a big conger lives.
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Such ships were robustly built with stout planking secured to massive framing timbers.
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Forward of the holds are the usual pairs of mooring bollards on solid steel plates, deck planking rotting around them.
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And these few days it was necessary to employ in planking and carefully calking the vessel, and launching her.
The Mysterious Island
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High, spidery scaffolding buttressed its walls on both sides, and though there was no one working now, Pres could see pails and rags scattered along the planking.
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He crept on narrow planking laid across the ceiling joist of the sanctuary.
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He has a habit of planking out the whole cost all at once.
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We also saw an auditionee whose sister gave a more memorable performance than she did for "planking" as her sibling sang, and a 15-year-old Bieberlite who didn't impress me half as much as he impressed the judges.
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The footsteps of the three who'd emerged from the neighbouring houseboat were heavy and quick on the planking, only yards away now --
THE LAST RAVEN
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Such ships were robustly built with stout planking secured to massive framing timbers, with a single mast possibly rigged with a square sail.
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The term planking originated from Australia but is actually just another name for
Gizmodo
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Are you going to cover the planking with carpet?
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They were sprawled on a narrow ledge of planking that rimmed what had once been the Great Hall.
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The army in gray had destroyed the planking of the bridge, leaving only the stringers holding it in place.
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Sam Weckert Sam Weckert, a carpenter who coined the term 'planking,' performs the stunt in South Australia.
The Planking Phenomenon
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Conan turned his gaze up the road to where the last of their party was crossing the broken causeway, via an unsteady ropeway floored with charred planking salvaged from the castle.
Conan The Warlord
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Even nautical archaeology has made great gains, for many of the waterfront structures incorporated broken-up vessel fragments, hull planking, keels, a prow, a side rudder, ribs, a mast partner.
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Knowing that the first fibers pulled off of the combs will be the longest, and having a goal of evenly mixed lengths of fibers in the finished product, I split this in half at the middle of the rope, lining up the first pulled off tip (longest fibers) with the first torn bit of the second half (midlength / shorter fibers), 'planking' them.
Sock prØn.
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He used to wear Doc-Marten boots on stage, as he stomped around so hard on the stage, often breaking the wooden planking as his feet added another dimension to the rhythm section.
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Aside from one minor mishap on 3 March that same year, when the boat hit the rocks and damaged some planking, the Raumiro and her crew sailed safely and well for many years.
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Despite his chill, and despite his teeth that were already beginning to chatter while the burning sun extracted the moisture in curling mist-wreaths from the deck planking, Van Horn cuddled Jerry in his arms and called him princeling, and prince, and a king, and a son of kings.
CHAPTER VII
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The floors can also be differentiated by the size of the planks and the direction of the planking.
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Slates had been falling from the roof and that recently builders had placed planking in the gutters at roof level to stop the slates falling to the ground below.
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They had had to ram the boat into the bank in order to avoid being swept away - or sinking, since the planking proved far from watertight.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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They sat on the back porch as morning breathed a frosty zephyr across the weathered planking.
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But I have a hard time looking at other boats, especially those with exposed planking, a bowsprit and her sheerline.
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I scratched the mold off one place, – here it is, – and I discovered that this planking is real seasoned cedar like they build the best boats of.
The Slipper Point Mystery
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The remaining futtocks are not attached to floors, but simply treenailed to the hull planking.
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The foremast had broken and sloped down to the seabed, but the funnel still stood and the wooden planking of the stern deck was intact and clean.
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The ribs spring from the solid mass of their own floors bolted in between the keelson and the keel; and the planking, or skin, is let into the rabbets, or side grooves, of the keel and firmly fastened to the ribs throughout by hardwood pegs called treenails.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
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The council conceded that they had been negligent in not removing the boat because of the risk the children could suffer minor injuries if they fell through the rotten planking.
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And she sometimes wondered if he'd ever learn to distinguish between planking and sills.
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Such ships were robustly built with stout planking secured to massive framing timbers, with a single mast possibly rigged with a square sail.
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The Los Angeles Times said some in the crowd threw bottles at police while others mocked and taunted them, dancing on squad cars or lying flat across the ground in what is known as "planking," a pretty much inexplicable Internet meme that is at once irreverent and potentially dangerous.
NYT > Home Page
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This minimal Newport frame was then simply sheathed with vertical planking, from sill to roof girt, on the outside face.
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It was built floor-by-floor using precast planking.
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For, see you, it was our custom to lick the dew from the oar-blades, the gunwales, the thwarts, and the inside planking.
CHAPTER X
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Following the steps down to main deck level at 25m, the deck planking is rotting but intact all the way to the stern.
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A light and graceful bridge of steel rods and planking ran the full length of the Elsinore, starting from the poop, crossing the amidship house and the forecastle, and connecting with the forecastle-head at the very bow of the ship.
CHAPTER III
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Melissa had come partially up the companionway, pausing, her head just level with the coach-roof planking, inches from his.
CORMORANT
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Her garboard strake is three inches thick; her planking two and one-half inches thick; her deck - planking two inches thick and in all her planking there are no butts.
Chapter 2
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There are a few objects on the floor that interrupt the diagonals struck by its planking.
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Here, too, are the details of carvel planking in all its sublime simplicity.
Times, Sunday Times
