Planking

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act of splicing slivers. ·see Plank, ·vt, 4.

II. Planking ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Plank.

III. Planking ·noun The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.