bottom-plank

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• Bottom

  ·noun The fundament; the buttocks. II. Bottom ·noun An <<Abyss>>. III. Bottom ·noun Dregs or groun...

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• Plank

  ·vt To harden, as hat bodies, by felting. II. Plank ·vt To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a...

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• bottom

  A polite term for the posteriors. Also, in the sporting sense, strength and spirits to support fatig...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bottom

  I. n. in gold-mining, the old river-bedupon which the wash-dirt rests, and upon which the richesta...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to plank

  To lay; to put; generally applied to money; as, 'He planked down the cash.' I've had to plank down ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bottom

  Low land with a rich soil formed by alluvial deposits, and formerly the bottom or bed of a stream or...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bottom

  A name for rich low land formed by alluvial deposits: but in a general sense it denotes the lowest p...

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• plank

  Thick boards, 18 feet long at least, from 1-1/2 to 4 inches thick, and 9 or 10 inches broad; of less...

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• Bottom fermentation

  ·add. ·- A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fer...

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• Plank-sheer

  ·noun The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame. ...

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• Sulphur-bottom

  ·noun A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S....

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• bottom-lands

  In the Western States, this name is given to the rich flat land on the banks of rivers, which in New...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bottom-clean

  Thoroughly clean, free from weeds, &c. ...

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• bottom-wind

  A phenomenon that occurs on the lakes in the north of England, especially Derwent Water, which is of...

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• diminishing plank

  The same as diminishing stuff (which see). ...

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• foul bottom

  A ship to which sea-weed, shells, or other encumbrances adhere. Also, the bottom of the sea if rocky...

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• futtock-plank

  The first plank of the ceiling next the kelson; the limber-strake. ...

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• ice-plank

  See spike-plank. ...

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• kettle-bottom

  A name applied to a ship with a flat floor. ...

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• plank-sheer

  Pieces of plank covering the timber-heads round the ship; also, the gunwale or covering-board. The s...

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• sharp bottom

  Synonymous with a sharp floor; used in contradistinction to a flat floor: the epithet denotes vessel...

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• soft-plank

  Picking a soft plank in the deck, is choosing an easy berth. (See plank it, to.) ...

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• spike-plank

  (Speak-plank?) In Polar voyages, a platform projecting across the vessel before the mizen-mast, to e...

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• stiff bottom

  A clayey bottom. ...

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• walking the plank

  A mode of destroying devoted persons or officers in a mutiny or ship-board, by blindfolding them, an...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to walk the plank

  This is an expression borrowed from the horrible practice of pirates, who, when they determine to de...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• edging of plank

  Sawing or hewing it narrower. ...

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• plank it, to

  To sleep on the bare decks, choosing, as the galley saying has it, the softest plank. ...

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• walking a plank

  An obsolete method of destroying people in mutiny and piracy, under a plea of avoiding the penalty o...

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• filling a ship's bottom

  Implies covering the bottom of a ship with broad-headed nails, so as to give her a sheathing of iron...

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• pay a vessel's bottom, to

  To cover it with tallow, sulphur, rosin, &c. (See breaming.) ...

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• pricking for a soft plank

  Selecting a place on the deck for sleeping upon. ...

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