Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks.
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- noun The
laying offloors in abuilding . - noun A floor of
boards orplanks .
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Examples
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Luckily, too, he had set his candle on the planching floor, just wide of the cupboard entrance, and it stood burning as though nothing had happened.
Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The sound whirred up through the planching twice as loud as usual.
I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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From the ceiling -- formed of rude, unplaned beams and the planching of the bedroom above -- depends a rack crowded with hams and sides of bacon, all wrapped in newspapers.
Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Hour after hour the sound of their muffled conversation ascended to me through the planching, as I sat and studied -- Dumas, I think.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Across the planching overhead sounded the patter of the children's bare feet.
Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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