It is faked, and cognate forms are found in Dutch vaalt, &c. It apparently meant a planked or boarded enclosure, cf. [Please select]
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The quagmire of its streets had been filled and in some places planked. [Please select]
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The streets had nearly all been planked, and private enterprise had carried the plank toll-road even to the Mission district. [Please select]
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Private carriages of really excellent appointment were numerous along the disreputable planked roads or the sandy streets strewn with cans and garbage. [Please select]
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Between these, at about twenty feet from the ground we laid a flooring of beams and bamboo, smoothly and strongly planked. [Please select]
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The frame of the Maud was all set up in due time, and then planked. [Please select]
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The little captain did not retire that night; he "planked the deck," and watched the weather. [Please select]
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Hitherto Blenkiron's purse had been closed, but now he took out some small nickels and planked five down on the table. [Please select]
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The faithful Gurth indeed sprang forward on the planked bridge to warn Cedric of his impending fate, or to share it with him. [Please select]
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At a quarter before one the upper windows of the headquarters building were thrown open and small planked platforms were thrust from two of them. [Please select]
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