planchern.

Brit.

/ˈplɑːn(t)ʃə/,

/ˈplan(t)ʃə/, U.S.

/ˈplæn(t)ʃər/ (in sense 5)Brit.

/ˈplɒnʃeɪ/, U.S.

/ˌplɑnˈʃeɪ/

Forms: Middle English perlancher (transmission error), Middle English planchar, Middle English planchoure (northern), Middle English planchowr (northern), Middle English planshor (northern), Middle English plaunchere, Middle English plaunchour (northern), Middle English plaunchoure (northern), Middle English plawncher, Middle English plawnchere, Middle English playnchour (northern), Middle English playnshore (northern), Middle English–1600s plauncher, Middle English– plancher, 1600s plainsher, 1600s (1800s– English regional (Norfolk)) planchard, 1600s–1700s planchere, 1600s–1700s planchier, 1700s plancheer, 1800s plansher (English regional (Suffolk)); also Scottish pre-1700 plainȝour, pre-1700 plainscheor, pre-1700 plainscheour, pre-1700 plainschour, pre-1700 plainshour, pre-1700 planceour, pre-1700 planchart, pre-1700 plancheor, pre-1700 plancheour, pre-1700 planchour, pre-1700 planchoure, pre-1700 plancior, pre-1700 planciour, pre-1700 planeschour, pre-1700 planscheor, pre-1700 planscheour, pre-1700 planscher, pre-1700 planschoir, pre-1700 planschour, pre-1700 planscour, pre-1700 planseour, pre-1700 plantior, pre-1700 plantiour, pre-1700 playnscheour, pre-1700 plencheour, pre-1700 plenshour, pre-1700 pllenshor, pre-1700 1700s plencher, pre-1700 1700s plensher, 1800s plenshir. N.E.D. (1907) also records forms late Middle English planshar, late Middle English planshare. See also planceer n.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French plancher.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman plancher, planchier, plauncher, plauncheour floor, and Old French, Middle French plancher, planchier planking, flooring (c1150 in Old French), floor of a house (c1165), ceiling, roof (1442), the floor of a cavity in the body (1812) < planche planch n. + -er , -ier -er suffix². Compare post-classical Latin planchera plank (1257 in a British source), planking, flooring (1335 in a British source; also as planchura , plaunchura , plancherium , from late 12th cent.). Compare planching n. and later planceer n.In sense 5 reborrowed < French plancher (although this sense is apparently only recorded slightly later in dictionaries of French: 1958), and apparently not fully naturalized in English. With plancher-nail n. at Compounds compare planching nail n.

a. A floor of planks or boards (now English regional (East Anglian)). Formerly also: †a platform of planks (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > quality of being raised or elevated > raised level surface or platform

plancher1295

staging1323

cagea1400

scaffoldc1405

mounture?a1425

halpace1507

wharf1533

platform1557

plat1559

foot pace1571

theatre1587

scenec1612

estrade1696

suggestum1705

tribune1763

scaffolding1787

estrado1838

dais1861

deck1872

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun]

fleta1000

floorc1000

floorth1303

loftingc1540

contignation1592

loft1596

contabulation1615

flooring1624

planchera1825

contablature1827

ground1847

Rory O'More1857

floor level1874

Rory1938

1295 Exchequer Accts. (Public Rec. Office) 5/20 (MED) Seuen nayls ad planchar.

1374 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1952) 451 Plaunchers omnium camerarum.

1411 Fabric Roll in Norfolk Archaeol. (1904) 15 179 (MED) Item, paid to Harry Comerde, wright, to hewing of board to the plauncher of the Guild hall, 13 s. 4 d.

1448 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 226 Þo holys þat ben made forre hand gunnyss..ben scarse kne hey fro þe plawnchere.

a1475 ( Lineage Lords of Clare in J. Weever Antient Funeral Monuments (1767) 475 (MED) Housis thre..she Made oute the ground, both plauncher and wal.

1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. viii. f. 113^v He caused an engine to be made called Helepolis..in which were .ix. stories or sellers deuided one from another with planchers of wood.

1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. iii. ii. ii. 223 Beares..whose skins are by custome and priuilege reserued to couer those planchers wherevpon their priests doo stand at Masse.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. viii. 106 The earth being as a flowre or plancher to goe vpon.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice v. 3 Now for the plaunchers of your stable..they shold be of the best hart of Oake that can be gotten.

1637 W. Crowne True Relation Trav. T. Howard 26 Passing thorow a plaine wooddie countrey to Holebrum, where we lay that night on the plancher.

1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions sig. Q4 It was all ruinous, the Chimneys down, the Planchers all to pieces, only the Bars of the Windows standing.

1744 Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) 41 543 They make a Plancher, strong enough, sometimes, to bear the Weight of whole Armies passing over the Baltic.

1763 Trial Margery Beddingfield 25 Q. Did he appear to dress himself? A. No. As soon as he got upon the plancher, he went directly out of the room.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 282 Plansher, the floor of a bed room; especially the part near the bed's foot.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Plancher, a boarded floor.

1999 R. Malster Mardler's Compan. 57/1 Plancher.

b. An upper floor or storey of a building. Now English regional.There is some overlap between this sense and sense 1a, as many houses in the past had wooden floors only on the upper storey. See quot. a1903.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey > upper floors

first floor1445

plancher1523

first storey1686

piano nobile1715

mezzaninec1720

entresol1726

attic storey1738

upstairs1781

attic1818

second floor1821

third floor1908

upper1968

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccc. 695 There was nothyng but a poore hall..and aboue a smale plancher, and a ladder of vii. steppes to mount vpon.

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War vii. f. xcii And as oftenne as the one shyppe assaultedde the othere, those, that were in the Castelles and planchers of the same, did caste plenty of dartes.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 185 Their castles and villages are very homely built without any plancher or stories.

a1903 M. C. H. Bird in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) at Plancher An upper floor with boarded floor, as opposed to the brick floor of downstairs.

†c. A wooden ceiling. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > ceiling > [noun] > types of

lacec1330

plancher1561

concameration1644

fasciaa1652

laqueary1656

cant-ceiling1688

laquear1706

string-piece1789

coved ceiling1796

concha1832

false ceiling1870

wagon-ceiling1875

suspended ceiling1933

1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 19 Let hym..hang ouer them a..tent cloth tied to the roofe or plancher.

1607 E. Grimeston tr. S. Goulart Admirable & Memorable Hist. 287 A man of a strange height..toucht the plancher of the Chamber with his head, the which was very high, after the manner of the French.

1621 Knolles's Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 3) 1303 The planchard was guilt, the wals enameled with flowers.

2. A wooden plank, a board; (also, collectively) planking, boarding. Now English regional (East Anglian).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank

boardc1000

plank1294

shingle-boardc1300

shotboard1310

planch1344

plancher1408

theal1517

broad1535

brod1643

mahogany plank1739

shingle1825

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > collectively

swale1325

plancher1408

planking1432

sawboard1495

planchery1519

plank1559

planchingc1600

deala1618

1408 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 137 (MED) In j roda planchoure emp. pro stauro, 8 s.

1447–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 236 In 27 de lez playnshorez emp. de Joh'e Wessyngton, scissore, 12 s.

1480 W. Worcester Itineraries 402 Ad metam vnius plancher de arbore.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Plauncher, planca.

1595 W. Lisle Babilon 35 The parts of most account to sow togither fit; As doth a little glue two mightie planchers knit.

1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 232 The Al-mightie laide the planchers of his high chambers amongst the waters.

1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 47 As it is in..Beames, and Planchers of Houses, which at first lay close together, but after they are dryed, gape.

1662 Duchess of Newcastle Playes Written Gen. Prol. sig. A7^v He cuts His Tree in many parts, those parts he puts In several places, beams, posts, planchers layes, And thus a house with his own stock doth raise.

c1721 W. Gibson True Method dieting Horses vi. 91 The Floor may either be made of Planchers of Oak, or smoothly pav'd.

1962 A. Jobson Window in Suffolk vi. 108 Grandmother called the old chestnut or elm floorboards upstairs planchers.

†3. The underside of the corona of a cornice; = planceer n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > entablature > cornice > corona > parts of or associated parts

modillion1563

plancher1565

cartouse1611

soffita1652

planceer1660

model1663

mundilion?1677

plafond1723

cartouche1726

cartridge-

1565 Abp. M. Parker Let. 20 Feb. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 231 As for either chimneys or plancher to be at this time builded, for that it may amount to excessive charge, ye may spare that cost.

a1652 I. Jones in B. Allsopp & R. A. Sayce Inigo Jones on Palladio (1970) II. iv. 21 The proiecture of the plancier.

1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 170 Planchier, an Ornament to which the Cornice is fastned.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 101/2 Planchier is a great round out swelling, between other smaller mouldings.

1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 54 The Ovolo..is hid in the Cavity under the Planchere.

1736 B. Langley Anc. Masonry Dict. sig. h^v Planchier, Planchere, or Planceer, the under part, or Cieling of the Corona of a Cornice.

1774 J. Carter Builder's Mag. 27 His second form [of architrave], consisting of but three members, or parts, is as follows, viz. a large plinth or planchier, a casement, and a large fillet.

†4. Anatomy. The floor of a cavity of the body. Obsolete. rare.Quot. 1882 reproduces verbatim the definition in Dunglison's Med. Lexicon (ed. 7, 1848), but the word is there listed as French.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Plancher,..4 In anat., the inferior wall or boundary of a cavity.

5. In France: the minimum amount of currency in Treasury bills which banks are obliged to hold. Cf. floor n.¹ 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > minimum treasury bills held (France)

plancher1957

1957 J. S. G. Wilson French Banking Struct. ii. xii. 342 Commercial bank rediscounts at the Bank of France..were to be subject to plafonds.., and the availability of loanable funds to the private sector was also to be limited by a plancher.

1962 Economist 24 Nov. 813/2 The minimum ratio (plancher) of Treasury bills which banks are obliged to hold.

1964 Financial Times 31 Jan. 5/6 Only those bills which the banks wish to buy above their compulsory holdings or ‘plancher’ are subject to tender. The so-called ‘maximum’..rates for ‘plancher’ holdings..remain the same.

Compounds

† plancher-nail n. Obsolete a large nail used to fasten down floorboards.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > flooring nails

planchnail1344

plancher-nail1467

planching nail1552

1467 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1882) (modernized text) III. 453 Plancher nail.

1480–1 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 96 Pro m^l m^l dc stanebrod et m^l c playnchournale, 10s.

1515 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 12 For dur naill, planseour naill, and windo naill.

1680 Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 42 For 500 plencher naills at 6s. the hunder.

1768 J. Gibson Fruit-gardener ii. iii. 124 Drive into a seam near the top of your wall..a single plancher-nail, not quite to the head.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	plancher
释义	planchern. Brit. /ˈplɑːn(t)ʃə/, /ˈplan(t)ʃə/, U.S. /ˈplæn(t)ʃər/ (in sense 5)Brit. /ˈplɒnʃeɪ/, U.S. /ˌplɑnˈʃeɪ/ Forms: Middle English perlancher (transmission error), Middle English planchar, Middle English planchoure (northern), Middle English planchowr (northern), Middle English planshor (northern), Middle English plaunchere, Middle English plaunchour (northern), Middle English plaunchoure (northern), Middle English plawncher, Middle English plawnchere, Middle English playnchour (northern), Middle English playnshore (northern), Middle English–1600s plauncher, Middle English– plancher, 1600s plainsher, 1600s (1800s– English regional (Norfolk)) planchard, 1600s–1700s planchere, 1600s–1700s planchier, 1700s plancheer, 1800s plansher (English regional (Suffolk)); also Scottish pre-1700 plainȝour, pre-1700 plainscheor, pre-1700 plainscheour, pre-1700 plainschour, pre-1700 plainshour, pre-1700 planceour, pre-1700 planchart, pre-1700 plancheor, pre-1700 plancheour, pre-1700 planchour, pre-1700 planchoure, pre-1700 plancior, pre-1700 planciour, pre-1700 planeschour, pre-1700 planscheor, pre-1700 planscheour, pre-1700 planscher, pre-1700 planschoir, pre-1700 planschour, pre-1700 planscour, pre-1700 planseour, pre-1700 plantior, pre-1700 plantiour, pre-1700 playnscheour, pre-1700 plencheour, pre-1700 plenshour, pre-1700 pllenshor, pre-1700 1700s plencher, pre-1700 1700s plensher, 1800s plenshir. N.E.D. (1907) also records forms late Middle English planshar, late Middle English planshare. See also planceer n. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French plancher. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman plancher, planchier, plauncher, plauncheour floor, and Old French, Middle French plancher, planchier planking, flooring (c1150 in Old French), floor of a house (c1165), ceiling, roof (1442), the floor of a cavity in the body (1812) < planche planch n. + -er , -ier -er suffix². Compare post-classical Latin planchera plank (1257 in a British source), planking, flooring (1335 in a British source; also as planchura , plaunchura , plancherium , from late 12th cent.). Compare planching n. and later planceer n.In sense 5 reborrowed < French plancher (although this sense is apparently only recorded slightly later in dictionaries of French: 1958), and apparently not fully naturalized in English. With plancher-nail n. at Compounds compare planching nail n. 1. a. A floor of planks or boards (now English regional (East Anglian)). Formerly also: †a platform of planks (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > quality of being raised or elevated > raised level surface or platform plancher1295 staging1323 cagea1400 scaffoldc1405 mounture?a1425 halpace1507 wharf1533 platform1557 plat1559 foot pace1571 theatre1587 scenec1612 estrade1696 suggestum1705 tribune1763 scaffolding1787 estrado1838 dais1861 deck1872 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] fleta1000 floorc1000 floorth1303 loftingc1540 contignation1592 loft1596 contabulation1615 flooring1624 planchera1825 contablature1827 ground1847 Rory O'More1857 floor level1874 Rory1938 1295 Exchequer Accts. (Public Rec. Office) 5/20 (MED) Seuen nayls ad planchar. 1374 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1952) 451 Plaunchers omnium camerarum. 1411 Fabric Roll in Norfolk Archaeol. (1904) 15 179 (MED) Item, paid to Harry Comerde, wright, to hewing of board to the plauncher of the Guild hall, 13 s. 4 d. 1448 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 226 Þo holys þat ben made forre hand gunnyss..ben scarse kne hey fro þe plawnchere. a1475 ( Lineage Lords of Clare in J. Weever Antient Funeral Monuments (1767) 475 (MED) Housis thre..she Made oute the ground, both plauncher and wal. 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. viii. f. 113^v He caused an engine to be made called Helepolis..in which were .ix. stories or sellers deuided one from another with planchers of wood. 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. iii. ii. ii. 223 Beares..whose skins are by custome and priuilege reserued to couer those planchers wherevpon their priests doo stand at Masse. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. viii. 106 The earth being as a flowre or plancher to goe vpon. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice v. 3 Now for the plaunchers of your stable..they shold be of the best hart of Oake that can be gotten. 1637 W. Crowne True Relation Trav. T. Howard 26 Passing thorow a plaine wooddie countrey to Holebrum, where we lay that night on the plancher. 1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions sig. Q4 It was all ruinous, the Chimneys down, the Planchers all to pieces, only the Bars of the Windows standing. 1744 Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) 41 543 They make a Plancher, strong enough, sometimes, to bear the Weight of whole Armies passing over the Baltic. 1763 Trial Margery Beddingfield 25 Q. Did he appear to dress himself? A. No. As soon as he got upon the plancher, he went directly out of the room. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 282 Plansher, the floor of a bed room; especially the part near the bed's foot. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Plancher, a boarded floor. 1999 R. Malster Mardler's Compan. 57/1 Plancher. b. An upper floor or storey of a building. Now English regional.There is some overlap between this sense and sense 1a, as many houses in the past had wooden floors only on the upper storey. See quot. a1903. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey > upper floors first floor1445 plancher1523 first storey1686 piano nobile1715 mezzaninec1720 entresol1726 attic storey1738 upstairs1781 attic1818 second floor1821 third floor1908 upper1968 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccc. 695 There was nothyng but a poore hall..and aboue a smale plancher, and a ladder of vii. steppes to mount vpon. 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War vii. f. xcii And as oftenne as the one shyppe assaultedde the othere, those, that were in the Castelles and planchers of the same, did caste plenty of dartes. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 185 Their castles and villages are very homely built without any plancher or stories. a1903 M. C. H. Bird in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) at Plancher An upper floor with boarded floor, as opposed to the brick floor of downstairs. †c. A wooden ceiling. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > ceiling > [noun] > types of lacec1330 plancher1561 concameration1644 fasciaa1652 laqueary1656 cant-ceiling1688 laquear1706 string-piece1789 coved ceiling1796 concha1832 false ceiling1870 wagon-ceiling1875 suspended ceiling1933 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 19 Let hym..hang ouer them a..tent cloth tied to the roofe or plancher. 1607 E. Grimeston tr. S. Goulart Admirable & Memorable Hist. 287 A man of a strange height..toucht the plancher of the Chamber with his head, the which was very high, after the manner of the French. 1621 Knolles's Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 3) 1303 The planchard was guilt, the wals enameled with flowers. 2. A wooden plank, a board; (also, collectively) planking, boarding. Now English regional (East Anglian). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank boardc1000 plank1294 shingle-boardc1300 shotboard1310 planch1344 plancher1408 theal1517 broad1535 brod1643 mahogany plank1739 shingle1825 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > collectively swale1325 plancher1408 planking1432 sawboard1495 planchery1519 plank1559 planchingc1600 deala1618 1408 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 137 (MED) In j roda planchoure emp. pro stauro, 8 s. 1447–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 236 In 27 de lez playnshorez emp. de Joh'e Wessyngton, scissore, 12 s. 1480 W. Worcester Itineraries 402 Ad metam vnius plancher de arbore. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Plauncher, planca. 1595 W. Lisle Babilon 35 The parts of most account to sow togither fit; As doth a little glue two mightie planchers knit. 1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 232 The Al-mightie laide the planchers of his high chambers amongst the waters. 1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 47 As it is in..Beames, and Planchers of Houses, which at first lay close together, but after they are dryed, gape. 1662 Duchess of Newcastle Playes Written Gen. Prol. sig. A7^v He cuts His Tree in many parts, those parts he puts In several places, beams, posts, planchers layes, And thus a house with his own stock doth raise. c1721 W. Gibson True Method dieting Horses vi. 91 The Floor may either be made of Planchers of Oak, or smoothly pav'd. 1962 A. Jobson Window in Suffolk vi. 108 Grandmother called the old chestnut or elm floorboards upstairs planchers. †3. The underside of the corona of a cornice; = planceer n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > entablature > cornice > corona > parts of or associated parts modillion1563 plancher1565 cartouse1611 soffita1652 planceer1660 model1663 mundilion?1677 plafond1723 cartouche1726 cartridge- 1565 Abp. M. Parker Let. 20 Feb. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 231 As for either chimneys or plancher to be at this time builded, for that it may amount to excessive charge, ye may spare that cost. a1652 I. Jones in B. Allsopp & R. A. Sayce Inigo Jones on Palladio (1970) II. iv. 21 The proiecture of the plancier. 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 170 Planchier, an Ornament to which the Cornice is fastned. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 101/2 Planchier is a great round out swelling, between other smaller mouldings. 1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 54 The Ovolo..is hid in the Cavity under the Planchere. 1736 B. Langley Anc. Masonry Dict. sig. h^v Planchier, Planchere, or Planceer, the under part, or Cieling of the Corona of a Cornice. 1774 J. Carter Builder's Mag. 27 His second form [of architrave], consisting of but three members, or parts, is as follows, viz. a large plinth or planchier, a casement, and a large fillet. †4. Anatomy. The floor of a cavity of the body. Obsolete. rare.Quot. 1882 reproduces verbatim the definition in Dunglison's Med. Lexicon (ed. 7, 1848), but the word is there listed as French.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Plancher,..4 In anat., the inferior wall or boundary of a cavity. 5. In France: the minimum amount of currency in Treasury bills which banks are obliged to hold. Cf. floor n.¹ 1b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > minimum treasury bills held (France) plancher1957 1957 J. S. G. Wilson French Banking Struct. ii. xii. 342 Commercial bank rediscounts at the Bank of France..were to be subject to plafonds.., and the availability of loanable funds to the private sector was also to be limited by a plancher. 1962 Economist 24 Nov. 813/2 The minimum ratio (plancher) of Treasury bills which banks are obliged to hold. 1964 Financial Times 31 Jan. 5/6 Only those bills which the banks wish to buy above their compulsory holdings or ‘plancher’ are subject to tender. The so-called ‘maximum’..rates for ‘plancher’ holdings..remain the same. Compounds † plancher-nail n. Obsolete a large nail used to fasten down floorboards. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > flooring nails planchnail1344 plancher-nail1467 planching nail1552 1467 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1882) (modernized text) III. 453 Plancher nail. 1480–1 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 96 Pro m^l m^l dc stanebrod et m^l c playnchournale, 10s. 1515 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 12 For dur naill, planseour naill, and windo naill. 1680 Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 42 For 500 plencher naills at 6s. the hunder. 1768 J. Gibson Fruit-gardener ii. iii. 124 Drive into a seam near the top of your wall..a single plancher-nail, not quite to the head. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † plancherv. Forms: see plancher n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: plancher n. Etymology: < plancher n. Obsolete. transitive. To cover or lay with floorboards; to board, plank. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > board or plank plank1432 plancher1439 planchc1516 board1530 boarden1552 tabulate1656 to brattice up1862 matchboard1889 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > floor > floor with planks or boards plank1432 plancher1439 planchc1516 boarden1552 loft1563 contabulate1623 1439 in Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. (1868) 25 119 (MED) The same John Heywod shal do remove the dormant..makyng the same soler more large be vij fete than it is at this tyme, and gysten and plauncheren bothe the nether soler and the over. 1516 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 244 Also shall plancher all the chambers..wyth goode and abyl boorde of oke. 1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia v. f. 132^v Towres were plauncherd, & battlements and portcolyses of timber set vp. 1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. Entablar, to boord, to planke, to plancher. 1616 A. Roberts Treat. Witchcraft 58 She sent her Impes, a Toad, and Crabs crawling about the house, which was a shoppe planchered with boords, where his seruants (hee being a Shooemaker) did worke. 1640 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) l. §551 The inner-roof is plancherd with board, or arched. 1665 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 100 Made a new door for the hayhole..planchered the hayhole. a1790 in F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘He planchereth his lofts in the water,’ Amos ix. 6, as rendered by Ainsworth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1295v.1439
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planchern.

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† plancherv.