planchedadj.
/plɑːn(t)ʃt/, /plan(t)ʃt/, U.S. /plæn(t)ʃt/, Canadian English /plæn(t)ʃt/ Now English regional (south-western) and Canadian.
Made of or covered with planches; boarded, planked.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [adjective] > made of boards or planks
planchered1440
boarded1444
boarden1454
planked?c1525
planky?1611
planched1614
board-built1837
board-and-bat1902
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia i. 18 Yet, with his hoofes, doth beat and rent The planched floore.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. i. 29 And to that Vineyard is a planched gate, That makes his opening with this bigger Key. View more context for this quotation
1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 331 [Devon] An Under Room plankt is called a Planch'd Floor.
1795 T. Cole Life Hubert i. 26 Thrasher's flail, now sounding dead on straw, And new sharp echo'd from elastic floor Of planched barn.
1891 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 4 159 An old woman said: ‘The roof wets so, I'm afraid the planchment'll fall.’ From planched, that is boarded.
1961 M. W. Barley Eng. Farmhouse & Cottage v. ii. 263 Devonshire, to judge from its parsonage houses, was as receptive as any other region of minor improvements within. The parlour almost invariably had a boarded floor, or ‘planched’, in the local idiom.
2004 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 3 Apr. f1 Bead-board planking at the cabinet ends ties in with the house's original planched ceilings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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