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Word Meanings - PLANKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.

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  • PLANKING
    1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
  • LAYLAND
    Land lying untilled; fallow ground. Blount.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • SERIES DYNAMO
    A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
  • LAYERING
    A propagating by layers. Gardner.
  • LAYING
    1. The act of one who, or that which, lays. 2. The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch. 3. The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • PLANKTON
    All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic , a.
  • COLLECTIVELY
    In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
  • SERIES MOTOR
    A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit.
  • SPLICE
    splisse, and E. split; -- from the dividing or splitting the ends 1. To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • WOODENLY
    Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. R. North.
  • PLACER
    One who places or sets. Spenser.
  • PLACE
    Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
  • SERIES
    Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. (more info) together; cf. Gr.
  • PLAY
    quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
  • UNFRAME
    To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • WAYLAYER
    One who waylays another.
  • PLAYGROUND
    A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • PLAYTE
    See PLEYT
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • TRACKLAYER
    Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
  • MEDAL PLAY
    Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
  • OVERLAY
    To put an overlay on. (more info) 1. To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams
  • CLAYISH
    Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.

 

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