planch

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French planche (“a board, plank”). See the doublet plank.

Noun

planch (plural planches)

(obsolete) A plank.
- 1583, T. Stocker, Tragicall historie of the troubles and civile warres of the lowe Countries:
  They went ouer planches, where they were cut off from the way.

Verb

planch (third-person singular simple present planches, present participle planching, simple past and past participle planched)

(obsolete, transitive) To make or cover with planks or boards.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
  To that vineyard is a planched gate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for planch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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