Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, a plank in the lining or floor on the foot-wall side of an inclined shaft on which the hoisting-bucket slides.
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Examples
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Mouti was lying still in the bottom of it on the bed-plank, a bullet between his broad shoulders and another in his skull: but John felt that his life was yet whole in him, though something had hissed past his face and stung it.
Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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_rooibaatjes_, one Boer will drive away twenty of them and make them run across the veldt, if they can run in those great knapsacks of theirs, with the tin things hanging round them like the pots and kettles to the bed-plank of a waggon.
Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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