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plancher

plancher noun: a floor made of wood.

Noun

plancher (plural planchers)

  1. A floor made of wood.
  2. A plank.
    • Elm; [used] some for planchers1627 (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...
  3. The underside of a cornice; a soffit.

Verb

plancher (third-person singular simple present planchers, present participle planchering, simple past and past participle planchered)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To form using planks.
    • your stable be well paved with rounde stone, wel planchered and kept clean1586, Conrad Heresbach, Foure Bookes of Husbandrie

Forms of plancher

Noun
pluralplanchers
Verb
third-person singular presentplanchers
present participleplanchering
past participleplanchered
pastplanchered

Origin of plancher

Borrowed from French plancher.

Questions about plancher

What does plancher mean?
Plancher means a floor made of wood.
What part of speech is plancher?
Plancher can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of plancher?
The plural of plancher is planchers.

Words near plancher in the dictionary

  1. planchas
  2. planche
  3. planched
  4. planchen
  5. planchens
  6. plancher
  7. planchered
  8. planchering
  9. planchers
  10. planches
  11. planchet

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