planch

[ planch, plahnch ]

/ plæntʃ, plɑntʃ /

a flat piece of metal, stone, or baked clay, used as a tray in an enameling oven.

British Dialect.

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1300–50; Middle English plaunche<Middle French planche<Latin plancaplank

Planch's Golden Fleece is in the same vein, but the ore is not as rich.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880.|Various
It is not for me to explain how so accurate an observer as the late Mr. Planch made such a mistake.
The Dates of Variously-shaped Shields|George Grazebrook
The story of Telemachus was the subject which engaged the attention of Planch immediately after he had done with Perseus.
A Book of Burlesque|Willam Davenport Adams
The last of Planch's classical burlesques was produced at the Lyceum in 1848.
A Book of Burlesque|Willam Davenport Adams

The verse of Planch and A'Beckett is smoothness itself, and they do not descend to word-torturing.
A Book of Burlesque|Willam Davenport Adams