plancher

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noun

A floor made of wood.

OriginFrench plancher →
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Meanings

nounplancher (plural planchers)

plural planchers

  1. A floor made of wood.
  2. A plank.

    Elm; [used] some for planchers

    1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC
  3. architectureThe underside of a cornice; a soffit.
verbplancher (third-person singular simple present planchers, present participle planchering, simple past and past participle planchered)

present singular third person planchers · participle present planchering · participle past planchered · past planchered

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo form using planks.

    your stable be well paved with rounde stone, wel planchered and kept clean

    1586, Conrad Heresbach, Foure Bookes of Husbandrie

Origin

  1. Frenchplancher
  2. Frenchplancher
  3. Englishplancher

Borrowed from French plancher.

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APA

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