Plank-sheer | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

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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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Sheer
·adv Clean; quite; at once. II. Sheer ·noun A turn or change in a course. III. Sheer ·vi Bright; c...

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sheer
Applied in the United States to fabrics of cotton or silk; as, sheer muslin; meaning very thin, clea...

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sheer
The longitudinal curve of a ship's decks or sides; the hanging of the vessel's side in a fore-and-af...

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

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

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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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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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sheer-batten
A batten stretched horizontally along the shrouds, and seized firmly above each of their dead-eyes, ...

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sheer-draught
In ship-building, a section supposed to be cut by a plane passing through the middle line of the kee...

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sheer-hulk
An old ship fitted with sheers, &c., and used for taking out and putting in the masts of other vesse...

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sheer-lashing
Middle the rope, and pass a good turn round both legs at the cross. Then take one end up and the oth...

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sheer-mast
The peculiar rig of the rafts on the Guayaquil river; also of the piratical prahus of the eastern se...

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sheer-mould
Synonymous with ram-line (which see). ...

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sheer-plan
The draught of the side of a proposed ship, showing the length, depth, rake, water-lines, &c. ...

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sheer-rail
The wrought-rail generally placed well with the sheer or top-timber line; the narrow ornamental moul...

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sheer-sail
A drift-sail. ...

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sheer-wales
Strakes of thick stuff in the top-sides of three-decked ships, between the middle and upper deck-por...

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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...

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

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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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break-sheer, to
When a ship at anchor is laid in a proper position to keep clear of her anchor, but is forced by the...

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sheer, to break
To deviate from that position, and thereby risk fouling the anchor. Thus a vessel riding with short ...

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sheer off, to
To move to a greater distance, or to steer so as to keep clear of a vessel or other object. ...

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sheer up alongside, to
To approach a ship or other object in an oblique direction. ...

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pricking for a soft plank
Selecting a place on the deck for sleeping upon. ...

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sheer to the anchor, to
To direct the ship's bows by the helm to the place where the anchor lies, while the cable is being h...

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