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Plank over   /plæŋk ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Plank over

verb
1.
Cover with planks.  Synonym: plank.






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"Plank over" Quotes from Famous Books



... guests heard and saw less and less, and the villagers began to see and hear more and more, and toward night they penetrated like a wedge into the open door—nay, two youths ventured even in the middle of the parsonage-court to mount a plank over a beam and commence seesawing. Out of doors, the gleaming vapor of the departed sun was encircling the earth, the evening-star was glittering over parsonage and churchyard; no one ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IV • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... ventured slowly to lift another floor plank over where our hairy bed-fellow lay; and even now I seem to see John's dilated eyes, as we looked down on a great round mat of ...
— The Junior Classics Volume 8 - Animal and Nature Stories • Selected and arranged by William Patten

... habitual act, the mind may at any time assume control of the movement. This is illustrated in the case of a person who, when unconsciously directing his bicycle along the road, comes to a narrow plank over a culvert. Hereupon full attention may be given to the movements, that is, the acts may come under ...
— Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education • Ontario Ministry of Education



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