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Meanings of single plank in English

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Usage of single plank in English
1
They are laughing and teetering as they balance along the single plank.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
2
Now you have not a single plank left of your great ship!
The Satyricon — Complete
3
The bridge was torn up completely, not a single plank of the flooring remained.
The Rover Boys out West; Or, The Search for a Lost Mine
4
Almost every single plank on the docks near Front Road had been ripped off.
Reuters
5
Knives and forks for dinner to-day, though the table still consists of a single plank.
A Confederate Girl's Diary
6
Do you expect to put your foot on every single plank in any platform, Brenton?
The Brentons
7
It was now rapidly taken to pieces, and every single plank and beam was carefully numbered.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition...
8
The stages leading on board had been removed, with the exception of a single plank to the gangway.
Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Misadventures
9
They were on the narrow swaying bridge-itwas but a single plank-Alanfirst, then the Mungana, then Jeekie.
A Yellow God: An Idol of Africa
10
The deal is not a quid pro quo but a single plank in the US's longstanding policy of nonproliferation.
Wired
11
The boat was built very high at bow and stern, and its bottom was a single plank, greatly curved.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
12
There were three horses tied just over my cabin with only a single plank between their heels and my head.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
13
Forty yards on, another canal, with what was left of a bridge, a single plank without rails, ran across our front.
The Quiet American
14
The bar was a single plank of wood running along one side of the main bar, a metre wide, fifteen metres long.
The Reality Dysfunction
15
Slowly and reverently those who responded moved downward to take their seats on a bench fronting the table of a single plank.
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
16
There was, on their way home, a field intersected by a stream over which a single plank was placed for a crossing.
Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-st...
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