plank
noun
a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
had planked
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past perfectof plank.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In the next race she had planked twenty sovereigns on an outsider, and raked in over a hundred pounds.
From The Four Faces A Mystery by William Le Queux
Everyone was intensely relieved, especially Lord Kitchener, for he had realized better than our politicians the desperate stakes we had planked down in our gamble with the Clerk of the Weather.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Sir Ian Hamilton
Quick as a flash, the head man was into the tin grub box and had planked on a cake of butter.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
