[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

plank \plank\, n. oe. planke, of. planque, planche, f. planche,
   fr. l. planca; cf. gr. ?, ?, anything flat and broad. cf.
   planch.
   1. a broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only
      in being thicker. see board.
      1913 webster

   2. fig.: that which supports or upholds, as a board does a
      swimmer.
      1913 webster

            his charity is a better plank than the faith of an
            intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.   --southey.
      1913 webster

   3. one of the separate articles in a declaration of the
      principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the
      national platform. cant
      1913 webster

   plank road, or plank way, a road surface formed of
      planks. u.s.

   to walk the plank, to walk along a plank laid across the
      bulwark of a ship, until one overbalances it and falls
      into the sea; -- a method of disposing of captives
      practiced by pirates.
      1913 webster
see also:
planch board plank road plank way to walk the plank 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

walk \walk\, v. t.
   1. to pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to
      perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
      1913 webster

            as we walk our earthly round.         --keble.
      1913 webster

   2. to cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow
      pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog. " i will
      rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding."
      --shak.
      1913 webster +pjc

   3. as. wealcan to roll. see walk to move on foot. to
      subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to
      full. obs. or scot.
      1913 webster

   4. sporting to put or keep a puppy in a walk; to train
      puppies in a walk. cant
      webster 1913 suppl.

   5. to move in a manner likened to walking. colloq.

            she walked a spinning wheel into the house, making
            it use first one and then the other of its own
            spindling legs to achieve progression rather than
            lifting it by main force.             --c. e.
                                                  craddock.

   to walk one's chalks, to make off; take french leave.

   to walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and
      be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of
      pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and
      compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the
      water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion.
      --bartlett.
      1913 webster
see also:
walk to walk one's chalks to walk the plank 

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Walk Out On, definition of term: Walk Out On
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