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Doorstep :: Doorstep (n.) The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

Plancher :: Plancher (n.) A floor of wood; also, a plank..

Panel :: Panel (n.) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted..

Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.

Teeter :: Teeter (v. i. & t.) To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter..

Ceiling :: Ceiling (v. t.) The inner planking of a vessel.

Sawyer :: Sawyer (n.) One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer..

Garboard :: Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake..

Wringstaff :: Wringstaff (n.) A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.

Clinker-built :: Clinker-built (a.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

But :: But (v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.

Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard..

Skin :: Skin (n.) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing..

Clamp :: Clamp (n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams..

Filling :: Filling (n.) That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc..

Shole :: Shole (n.) A plank fixed beneath an object, as beneath the rudder of a vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end of a shore or the like..

Quickwork :: Quickwork (n.) The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.

Lumber :: Lumber (n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints..

Slab :: Slab (n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc..

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