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Justifiable homicide

crime, but not if the crime is unaccompanied by force. If two shipwrecked persons get on the same plank, but finding it not able to save them both, one of them thrusts the other from it, whereby

Driftpiece

An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale also a scroll terminating a rail

Billboard

A piece of thick plank armed with iron plates and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel for the bill

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Bore

drill or other instrument to make a round hole in or through to pierce as to bore a plank

Tabula in naufragio

Tabula in naufragio [Lat.] (a plank in a shipwreck). See TACKING; ATTENDANT TERM.

Clinker built

Having the side planks af a boat so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank

Gangway

way over which one goes, Housing v. De Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd., (1949) 1 All ER 540. A plank over duct dug for laying pipes. See also Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 20, p. 395.

Board

Board [fr. A. Sax. Bord, a plank or table], a body of persons having delegated to them certain powers of the Central Government, as the

Sledge

A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels or one without wheels or runners made of plank slightly turned up at one end used for transporting loads upon the snow ice or bare ground a

Seesaw

A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle and move alternately up and down

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