Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: plank
IPA transcription: [pl'æŋk]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: board, plank
    Meaning: a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: plank, plank_over
    Meaning: cover with planks; "The streets were planked"
Usage examples
  • "Shall I clamber across, or will you come to the plank above here?"
  • The Democratic Party made its suffrage plank specific against action by Congress.
  • They did so. The President chose the plank and his subordinates followed his lead.
  • "May I go, too?" asked Marie timidly of Father De Smet as he was about to draw in the plank.
  • They walked in parallel lines, one on each bank of the stream, towards the small plank bridge.
  • Protected by the President's plank, the Democratic Congress continued to block national suffrage.
  • We shuffled cautiously towards it, trying every plank before we dared to put our whole weight upon it.
  • If the Republicans could afford to write a vague and indefinite plank, the President and his party could not.
  • He could not nearly reach up to the kitchen range, but by putting a wide plank on two chairs he managed very well.
  • Now their house lay close up against a steep down, and he thought if he laid a plank across to the thatch at the back he'd easily get the cow up.