plank
noun
a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
planked
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past participleof plank.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof plank.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
planknouna long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
Example Sentences
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"Bee" is one of the very few remaining Stroma yoles – a small open-decked boat with a planked hull - that once served the now abandoned island off the northern mainland.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025
I planked on the lake shore and did box jumps onto the deck steps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
There are also dozens of variants — pickets, corrugated panels, berms, X-shaped steel barriers, even planked walls placed along Gulf Coast beaches.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
Make one on a hot summer night to go with his smoked planked Camembert with jalapeños and pepper jelly.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2016
In coffins for the not dead and not alive, in planked boxes, the metronomes waited to be set in motion.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
