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Walking the plank
Walking the plank is a form of execution popularly (but incorrectly) believed to have been widely practiced by pirates. As usually described, 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, and/or in shark-infested waters (these predators often follow a ship).
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