plank floor

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noun Shipbuilding.

a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.

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It was a Senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer.
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When I saw the fire in the restaurant, I ran down to the floor below, where I was trapped between flames above and below.
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Twin girls, Greta and Grace, run around the floor in circles, wearing pink playsuits with tiny pink wings attached.
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Instead, most of the suffering species ate insects on the forest floor.
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Its beautifully aged wooden exterior houses traditional floor seating and beautiful gardens typical of the area.
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She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
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The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.
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Her feet felt rooted to the floor in the wonder and doubt of this strange occurrence.
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Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.
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Several able speakers had made long addresses in support of the bill when one Mr. Morrisett, from Monroe, took the floor.
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