plancher

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Amid the caue vpon the ground doth lie A hollow plancher,[108] all of Ebonie, Couer'd with blacke, whereon the drowsie God Drowned in sleepe continually doth nod.

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  1. A plank. upon the ground doth lie A hollow plancher. Lyly, Maid's Metamorph. Th' anatomized fish, and fowls from planchers sprong. Drayton, Polyolbion, iii. 272
  2. A floor of wood. The holys that ben made forr hand gunnys, they ben scarse kne hey fro the plawncher, and of soche holis ben made fyve. Paston Letters, I. 83. Oak, cedar, and chestnut are the best builders: some are best for plough timber, as ash: some for planchers, as deal. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 658.
  3. In anatomy, the inferior wall or boundary of a cavity.
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  1. Also planceer; early modern English also plauncher; from French plancher, a floor or ceiling of boards, from planche,a board, plank: see planch, plank.
  2. Early modern English also plauncher; from plancher, n.
 

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