Plank Definition
- to walk to one's death blindfolded and manacled off a plank projecting from the side of a ship, as the victims of pirates were sometimes forced to do
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Origin of Plank
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From Anglo-Norman planke, Old Northern French planque (compare French planche, from Old French planche), from Late Latin planca, probably from *palanca (ultimately from Latin phalanga) possibly through the influence of planus. Cf. also the doublet planch, borrowed later from Middle French.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old North French planke from Late Latin planca from plancus flat plāk-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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