A hollow plancher

Lyly, Maid's Meta morph. Th' anatomized fish, and fowls from planchers sprong. Drayton, Polyolbion, iii. 272 2. A floor of wood. The holys that ben made forr hand gunnys, they ben scarse kne hey fro the plauncher , and of soc he holis ben made fyve. Paston Letters , I. 83. Oak, cedar, and chestnut are the best builders: some are best for plough timber, as ash: some for planchers , as deal. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 658. 3. In an at ., the inferior wall or boundary of a cavity. plan chert (plan'cher), v . [Early mod. E. also plauncher ; plancher , n .] I. in trans . To make a floor of wood. Abp . Sancroft , Letter, 1691, in D'Oyly, II. 16.