What’s “walk the plank” mean?

Walking the plank was not a common practice among pirates, but keelhauling was. The idea of walking the plank comes from literary sources and has been fictionalized in pirate movies. The term can also apply to politics when a politician is forced to make a career-ending vote for the benefit of their party. According to […]

What’s a plank finger?

Board fingers are conductive patterns on circuit boards, often made with gold plating, that improve efficiency and signal processing. They can be recycled for use in other products and have replaced older, more complicated circuitry. Companies purchase and harvest the gold plating for reuse in manufacturing newer circuit boards. Sometimes known as circuit board fingers, […]

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