hub plank

English

Noun

hub plank (plural hub planks)

1. A horizontal guard plank along the truss of a highway bridge, at the height of a wagon-wheel hub.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hub plank”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)