1. A piece of lumber cut thicker than a board.
2. such pieces of lumber considered as a group; planking.
3. A foundation; a support.
4. one of the articles of a political platform.
5. to furnish or cover with planks: plank a muddy pathway.
6. to bake or broil and serve (fish or meat) on a plank: "boards specially made for planking food have grooves . . . to hold juices” ( michael stern).
7. to put or set down emphatically or with force.

1. A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
2. A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
3. physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
4. A stupid person.
5. to cover something with planking.
6. to bake (fish) on a piece of cedar lumber.
7. to lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
8. to harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
9. to splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
10. to pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.

1. A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. see board.
2. fig.: that which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer.
3. one of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause.
4. to cover or lay with planks.
5. to lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
6. to harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
7. to splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.

1. to cover or lay with planks: as, to plank a floor.
2. to lay or place as on a plank or table: as, he planked down the money.
3. in hat-manuf., to harden by felting. see planking
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5. to unite, as slivers of wool, to form roving.
6. to split, as fish, and cook upon a board. see the quotation.
7. A piece of timber differing from a board in having greater thickness; also, loosely, a board. see board.
8. A slab (of stone).
9. in a printing-press, the frame on which the carriage slides.
10. in ribbon-weaving, the batten of the dutch engine-loom or swivel-loom.
11. figuratively, one of the articles or paragraphs formulating distinct principles which form the program or platform of a political or other party (the word platform being taken in a double sense).

1. a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes
2. cook and serve on a plank
3. cover with planks
4. an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party
5. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise