plank

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the volume of the same name, see plank (unit) . For the forest officer and victim of National Socialism see Josef Planke .

The first planks are attached to a new ship (construction of a replica of a Nordic longship in Roskilde )

Plank wall of a moth (castle)

A plank is a piece of the outer skin or deck planking of a ship , essentially an adapted, relatively narrow board or plank . It is generally applied to the erected frames or malls . A series of fore and aft planks are called a plank walkway . The word is derived from phalanx . In North German shipbuilding, planks were also referred to as floorboards (e.g. in Lübeck, the job description for floorboards ). In the Alpine region they used to be called Bodenladen .

In a figurative sense, the term plank is also used synonymously with plank , especially when it is a single plank intended to be walked on.

Planks were also used for the wall-like walls of medieval wood-earth fortifications, with a rectangular cross-section in contrast to the round palisades .

See also

• Lumber
• planking
• Go over the plank

Web links

Wiktionary: Planke  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Steiner: The travel companion through Austrian Switzerland or the Obderennsische Salzkammergut (etc.) 2. Probably u. verb. Ed. Fink, 1829.