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plankway Hist.

• n. a road made of rough-hewn planks laid across timbers running end-to-end at right angles to the planks.

  See also: plank road  

  • 1849  The plank-way, on which is the travelling for rough-shod horses only, is 16 feet wide.
  • 1965  Yet in spite of these hazards this 14-mile plankway may well hold a record: for its 30-year history is unmarred by death of injury.