释义 |
ˈplanching, vbl. n. [f. planch v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. planch; laying of a floor. b. concr. Planks collectively, planking, boarding; esp. flooring. dial.
c1600Norden Spec. Brit., Cornw. (1728) 59 Her water pypes..are cutt up, the Coueringe lead gone, the Planchinges rotten. 1602Carew Cornwall 53 To plant their houses lowe..to couer their planchings with earth. Ibid. 66 b, Low thatched roofes, few partitions, no planchings or glasse windows, and scarcely any chimnies, other then a hole in the wall to let out the smoke. 1706Phillips, Planching, (in Carpenters Work) a laying the Floors of a Building. 1880Mrs. Parr Adam & Eve xxxiii. 452 If I thought that 'twas you was the cause of it, I'd scat out yer brains on the planchin. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Planchin, the board of the floor. Planchin-board, flooring board. c. Comb. ˈplanching-nail, ˈplenshing-nail (erron. plenishing-nail), a flooring-nail.
[1365in Rogers Agric. & Prices II. 479/1 Planching-nails.] 1825Jamieson, Plenshing-nail. (Hence in Simmonds, Knight.) 1882Ogilvie (Annandale) Plenishing-nail. (Hence in Cent. Dict., Funk's Stand. Dict.) |