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Walking the plank
Walking the plank was a form of punishment thought to have been practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers. For the amusement of the perpetrators (and the psychological torture of the victims), captives were forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship, until falling into the water.
==Earliest documented record of the phrase==
The phrase is recorded in English lexicographer Francis Grose's ''Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue'', which was published in 1788 (first published in London in 1785).〔("Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" ), Francis Grose, 1788, Google Books (originally published 1785)〕 Gosse writes;
Walking the plank. A mode of destroying devoted persons or officers in a mutiny on ship-board, by blind-folding them, and obliging them to walk on a plank laid over the ship's side; by this means, as the mutineers suppose, avoiding the penalty of murder.〔
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