Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the planks employed to form a sort of darn in some hydraulic works.
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Examples
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Attached to the stop-plank of the gable a bunch of straw mixed with corn-ears fluttered its tricoloured ribbons in the wind.
Madame Bovary 2003
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Attached to the stop-plank of the gable a bunch of straw mixed with corn-ears fluttered its tricoloured ribbons in the wind.
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1850
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Attached to the stop-plank of the gable a bunch of straw mixed with corn-ears fluttered its tricolored ribbons in the wind.
Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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