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.