diminishing plank

Related Words

• Diminishing

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Diminish>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Plank

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

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• 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.

• plank

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• diminishing strakes

  See black-strake. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• diminishing stuff

  In ship-building, the planking wrought under the wales, where it is thinned progressively to the thi...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Plank-sheer

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

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• bottom-plank

  That which is placed between the garboard-strake and lower back-strake. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• futtock-plank

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• ice-plank

  See spike-plank. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• plank-sheer

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• soft-plank

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• spike-plank

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• plank it, to

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• walking a plank

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pricking for a soft plank

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book