Note 191 — GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE.
Reading edition
A planch is a plank of wood. To planch therefore is a verb formed from it. See "Measure for Measure," Vol. II., edit. 1778, p. 106.—S.
The above note but ill explains its meaning; the word will be better illustrated by the following description of the fortification of Ypres by Holinshed: "It was fensed with a mighty rampire and a thicke hedge, trimlie planshed, and woond with thornes," &c.—Chron. 2. 759. Ed. 1807.—O. G.