different between blancher vs plancher

English

Etymology

blanch +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?blænt??(?)/, /?bl??nt??(?)/

Noun

blancher (plural blanchers)

1. One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; especially, one who anneals and cleanses money, or a chemical preparation for this purpose.
2. A machine for blanching or whitening.
3. (obsolete) One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.

   • And Gynecia, a blancher, which kept the dearest deer from her.

   • 18 January 1549, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough

     And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel.

Related terms

• blencher

English

Etymology

French planche.

Noun

plancher (plural planchers)

1. A floor made of wood.
2. A plank.

   • Elm; [used] some for planchers

3. (architecture) The underside of a cornice; a soffit.

Verb

plancher (third-person singular simple present planchers, present participle planchering, simple past and past participle planchered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To form using planks.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??.?e/

Etymology 1

From planche.

Noun

plancher m (plural planchers)

1. floor
2. lower limit
3. (anatomy) floor

Derived terms

• débarrasser le plancher
• mettre le pied au plancher
• plancher des vaches

Etymology 2

From planche.

Verb

plancher

1. (intransitive) to talk

Conjugation

Further reading

• “plancher” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).