Planking is valid Scrabble Word

Is planking a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for PLANKING in dictionary:

VERB:

make, provide, or cover with planks
put or set (something) down forcefully or abruptly
hide (something)

NOUN:

a covering made of planks
a long, thin, flat piece of timber, used especially in building and flooring.
a fundamental point of a political or other programme
a physical exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles, in which one performs a press-up and holds the raised position for a set period of time
a stupid person.
number of planks
The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.

The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
planks collectively; a quantity of planks
(nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship)
the work of covering an area with planks

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to cover with planks (long, flat pieces of lumber)

Words related to PLANKING

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Words that contain PLANKING

plankings16

How to use PLANKING in a sentence

For years the wind had blown sighing through its deserted rooms, while the rain rotted the planking.
With an extra planking within, and an armament of twenty-four rifled fifty-pounders or Whitworth cannon, and select crews, such vessels need fear no antagonists upon the deep.
Vessels are found far up on the land, with the torn stumps of trees driven through their planking.
Beside it, on the outer side of it, runs a path, which becomes an offhand gangway of planking at the overhanging places.
The ferry-boat is made of planking placed on three dugout canoes, and runs on a trolley.
Hence, too, came that ominous planking and that strange procession in the early morning.
The great ribs were used as beams in the formation of huts, while the jaws served as doors and the smaller bones as planking.
On the field side was a wide ditch, crossed at the gate by a bridge, the planking of which might be removed at will.
As regards the ledges, they should be of stout planking in any case, and should not be fixed, because of the necessity for clearing the shelves and renewing the soil periodically.
Presently, with the weight shifted, the ship lay over on her starboard side and her bow rose above the water until the crushed planking and the hole were above the water line.

The sea biscuit, absorbing moisture, swelled, and this together with the canvas, butter and planking proved effectual.
It was no easy matter to shift the heavy planking, but after a while they got one plank up and then used this as a pry to bring up the second.
I thought she was accepting my invite, you see, when, lo and behold, at settling time she drawed out her money and insisted on planking down her part to a fraction of a cent.
As the flames spread, the planking warped, and fell.
Instead of nails, the Cossack used reindeer thongs to bind the planking together.
There was a good deal of timber left unused, and he drove down new piles, nailed on new planking, and extended the little pier considerably farther into the waters of the cove.
The entire length of the tall blackened planking had been torn down.
The cart was sent back about twelve miles for some of the callitris trees required for planking, none having been seen nearer to our camp.
His bleeding fingers loosed themselves from the break, his knees failed beneath him, and he fell in an unconscious stupor of sleep on to the wet planking of the deck.
The mast was pounding our side in a way that would start the planking before long, and it must be cut adrift, and by that time I could join him.
When the two walls have been united by these slabs they apply the bottom planking, and then launch the hull before completing the construction.
In the middle of the floor, which was mostly rotted away, a space about fifteen feet square was covered with thick pine planking, strongly nailed to the beams.
In the centre of this planking an oaken block was firmly bolted, and to it was fastened a strong iron staple that held a log-chain, to which was attached a pair of shackles.
The sea was running cross and heavy, which caused the cargo to shift, and the water to come on the ceiling, that is, the inner planking of the hull.
Then a vessel loomed up suddenly under the great cliffs, and a moment later he was under her side, tapping softly against the planking.
The yards of Maine and Massachusetts sent far afield for white oak knees and pine planking.
There was none of any account, though the upper planking of the ship was strained, and the wash of the sea found its way through the seams now and then.
Then the boat was gone, and past us drifted oars and crushed planking, and a helm floating like an upturned bowl.
The pitch was melting in the chinks between the planking of the decks, and the tar running down her sides.
While most of the company were planking the promenade deck, it was observed that Lord Tremlyn and Dr.
On that day, for instance, the time had just arrived for beginning to lay the planking upon the timbers.

Similar words containing PLANK without suffix ing

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