▪ I. planch, n.
(plɑːnʃ, -æ-)
Forms: 4–6 plaunche, (5 plange), 6 planche, 6– planch.
[a. F. planche plank, slab: see plank.]
1. A plank or board of wood; dial. a floor. Obs. exc. dial.
| 1390 Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 43 Pro factura des plaunches in naui. 1440 J. Shirley Dethe K. James (1818) 15 He laid certayne plaunches and hurdelles over the diches of the diche. 1483 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 364 Suche person and persones..that occupieth the said Watyr⁓bailliffes planges. 1583 T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. iii. 117 They went ouer planches, where they were cut off from the way. 1864 Blackmore Clara Vaughan (1872) 49 A strange-looking individual..crossed the ‘planch’ or floor to the fireplace where we sat. 1881 ― Christowell v, Then the gardener..let down his ‘planch’, over the..brook. |
2. A slab or flat plate of metal, stone, baked clay, etc.; spec. in Enamelling, a slab of baked fire-clay used to support the work during the process of baking.
| 1578 T. N. tr. Conq. W. India 233 There sawe golde in planches like bricke battes. 1580 Frampton Dial. Yron & Steele 146 They make it in certaine small thinne planches. 1682 Wheler Journ. Greece i. 18 A Portic..whose curious-wrought Planches of Stone are supported by Twenty-four Corinthian-Pillars. 1684 Bucaniers Amer. (1699) 31 The meal thus prepared, they lay on planches of iron made very hot on which it is converted to very thin cakes. 1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts Ser. iii. 206/2 The first coats are taken separately from tin covers, and placed upon thin planches of clay or iron, chalked over, and gradually introduced beneath the muffle, where, in a very short time, the enamel melts. |
3. A flat iron shoe for a mule.
| 1875 in Knight Dict. Mech. 1890 in Cent. Dict. |
4. Comb. planch-nail = plancher-nail.
| 1350 in Riley Lond. Mem. (1868) 262, 12,000 de plaunchenail..3,000 de dornail;..2,600 de wyndounail. 1364–1446 in Rogers Agric. & Prices II. 478–9; III. 448–51. |
▪ II. † planch, v. Obs.
Also 6 plaunche.
[f. planch n., or a. obs. F. planche-r ‘to planke; to floore with plankes: to seele, or close, with boords’ (Cotgr.), f. planche plank.]
trans. To form of planks, floor or cover with planks.
| c 1516 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 245 For planchyng wyth thyk bords the Pantrye. 1623 Cockeram, Cotabulate, to planch. 1723 Borlase in Edin. Rev. (Reference wanting) [A request] that the hall of the Mount may be planched for dancing. |
b. transf. To clap on (something broad and flat).
| 1575 Gamm. Gurton i. ii, The next remedye..Is to plaunche on a piece as brode as thy cap. |
Hence † ˈplanched ppl. a., made of or covered with boards; boarded.
| 1603 Shakes. Meas. for M. iv. i. 30 And to that Vineyard is a planched gate, That makes his opening with this bigger Key. 1614 Gorges tr. Lucan i. 18 Yet, with his hoofes, doth beat and rent The planched floore. |