Noun : They fought for a plank supporting a nuclear freeze. From Dictionary.com.
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Slipper Point Mystery] Reference
"This is a carvel-built boat; that is, her planking runs fore and aft,". From Wordnik.com. [The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton] Reference
The planking was a cedar-coloured wood, and all the arches and mouldings were finished like cabinet-work, so that it was both handsome and durable. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak] Reference
With this kind of planking the stability of the frame element is increased many times over. From Wordnik.com. [3. Technological Application of the Press] Reference
Where the planking is the broadest. From Wordnik.com. [Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes] Reference
In the same way the planking is the skin. From Wordnik.com. [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference
The planking creaked as the strangers tip-toed inside. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
He sat up and struck his head upon the planking overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
When the trench is very deep, a second row of planking is necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
The planking was soon laid, and the erection of the tent was left to. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
He asked, joining step with her as she moved along the rough planking. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
Tommy struck three times on the planking of the dock with his open hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
The room was perhaps twenty feet in size each way, and the walls were of heavy planking. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
Is very strong, tough, and elastic; generally used for ships 'outside planking above water. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Through the thin planking Percy could hear him open the little door and crawl up into the bow. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Where the ground is mostly gravel and well packed, the above method of planking is unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
D'Ucello and his men watched in silence as the fire ate through the thick planking of the rack table. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Drew went down the corridor, his spurs answering with a chiming ring each time his heels met planking. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
A sketch of the two methods above for planking trenches is given and a little study will make them clear. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
For planking or broiling, fish steaks or thin, flat fish, such as mackerel or bluefish, should be selected. From Wordnik.com. [School and Home Cooking] Reference
Open-cut excavation was started by planking over the street on stringers resting on transverse 12 by 12-in. caps. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158] Reference
The planking ordinarily used is of heart sugar pine, one and a half to two inches thick, and 12 to 18 inches wide. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference
The city of San Francisco was then extending her streets, sewering them, and planking them, with three-inch lumber. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Any wall which is there should preferably fall short, so as to leave the wooden planking above it an unsupported span. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
He felt along the gunwale to the bow and fastened the painter to an iron ring in the planking, then handed her out safely. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
"The fellow is simply out beneath the platform, making sounds against the under side of the planking -- probably with a stick!". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity] Reference
He was lying on a floor of crude planking, the setting sun shining into his eyes through the doorless entrance of the building. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
They were timbered and planked over, and the railroad bridge was also covered with planking, thus giving us two passable bridges. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
The floor of the kásgi is made of rough planking, and the boards in the center are left loose so that they may be easily removed. From Wordnik.com. [The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo] Reference
The father of Francis Newman had great schemes for making England "independent of foreign timber by planking all our waste lands.". From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
Pieces of her timbers and planking floated up on her port side, and after some more heavy thumps she remained apparently immovable. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
A carp of a size sufficient to excite the envy of the neighboring fishermen lay with laboring gills upon the water-spattered planking. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Metropolis, or the unsheltered, two-inch planking sort, of the wayside junction; they saw more of real life, the Tragedy of tears and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
Also recovered was inner and outer planking, part of the keel and a single, 530-pound piece that was part of either the ship's bow or stern. From Wordnik.com. [Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site] Reference
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