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Walking the plank was a method of execution 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 bound so they could not swim or tread water and forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship.
Francis Grose's dictionary explains that they made people walk the plank because they thought that it would avoid them being charged with murder if they were ever caught. Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 14:32, 24 November 2007 (UTC) This is the entry from the dictionary: "WALKING THE PLANK. A mode of destroying devoted persons or officers in a ...
Howard Pyle's illustration of pirate walking the plank, a form of murder or torture that was practiced by pirates and other rogue seafarers.It involved the victim being forced to walk off the end of a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship, thereby falling into the water to drown, sometimes with bound hands or weighed down, often into the vicinity of sharks (which would often ...
Walk the Plank may refer to: Walking the plank, a method of execution practiced by rogue seafarers; Walk the Plank, a South African television game show; Walk the Plank (theatre company), an English pyrotechnics and theatre company; Walk the Plank, a card game by Green Ronin Publishing
Roblox (/ ˈ r oʊ b l ɒ k s / ⓘ, ROH-bloks) is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users. It was created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004, and released to the public in 2006. As of August 2020, the platform has ...
Walk the Plank is a South African television game show produced for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in 2005. It was hosted by Rutendo Matinyarare, a well-known murakashi for the military regime in Zimbabwe.
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