PLANKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does planking mean? 

• PLANKING (noun)
  The noun PLANKING has 3 senses:

1. planks collectively; a quantity of planks

2. (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship)

3. the work of covering an area with planks

  Familiarity information: PLANKING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Planks collectively; a quantity of planks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("planking" is a kind of...):

lumber; timber (the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("planking" is a kind of...):

covering (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

Domain category:

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

Derivation:

plank (cover with planks)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The work of covering an area with planks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("planking" is a kind of...):

manual labor; manual labour (labor done with the hands)

Derivation:

plank (cover with planks)

 Context examples 

I already knew that the papers were probably in the room, but I had no desire to rip up all the planking and skirting in search of them.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture in the hope of finding them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Its planking was three-quarters of an inch thick.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Our feet creaked and crackled over the bare planking, and my outstretched hand touched a wall from which the paper was hanging in ribbons.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And he punched on and on, slower and slower, as the last shreds of vitality oozed from him, through centuries and aeons and enormous lapses of time, until, in a dim way, he became aware that the nameless thing was sinking, slowly sinking down to the rough board-planking of the bridge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a difficult cast to make on a rolling ship, but the sharp point of the spike, whistling seventy-five feet through the air, barely missed Wolf Larsen’s head as he emerged from the cabin companion-way and drove its length two inches and over into the solid deck-planking.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)