Meaning Of The Word Walk the plank

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walk the plank in British English
to accept responsibility for something that has gone wrong and leave your position
to be forced by pirates to walk to one's death off the end of a plank jutting out over the water from the side of a ship
to be forced, as by pirates, to walk to one's death by stepping off a plank extending from the ship's side over the water
to walk blindfolded and manacled off a plank projecting from the side of a ship, as the victims of pirates were sometimes forced to do

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