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Ply   /plaɪ/   Listen
Ply

verb
(past & past part. plied; pres. part. plying)
1.
Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.  Synonyms: cater, provide, supply.
2.
Apply oneself diligently.
3.
Travel a route regularly.  Synonym: run.
4.
Join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding.
5.
Wield vigorously.
6.
Use diligently.
noun
1.
One of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination.  "Four-ply yarn"
2.
(usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood.



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"Ply" Quotes from Famous Books



... connected; yet, suggestive fancy could readily supply their place with kindred ideas culled from our more prosaic surroundings. We had, it is true, no crimson-sashed, ragged, ballet-costumed gondolier to "ply the measured oar;" because, in the first instance, we did not row up at all. We were a trifle too wise in our generation to pull up the river in a lumbering barge under a broiling sun, and fancy we were amusing ourselves! No, we had a horse ...
— She and I, Volume 1 • John Conroy Hutcheson
... such queer things! As for the poor elder, God knows he has a hard enough time to live. He only gets five hundred dollars a year, and what the sewing circle does for him. Only last week the circle gave him new dresses for all his family, and a nice three-ply carpet, which I made for him. I forgot to tell you, too, that about a month since the circle gave him a new set of dimity bed curtains, and two marseilles quilts; and now they will have to make him up the loss of his chickens. Just think of it, sir! And he's such a good old man, ...
— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"
... be the gift of gifts," said he to Brok. "Ply the bellows as before, and do not, for your life, stop or falter until ...
— The Story of Siegfried • James Baldwin
... we are dead. If they live we can grow, They ply in our streets as blood corpuscles ply In their own little veins. If you cut off the flow Of these beasts in a city, that city will die. Yet we heighten our buildings and harden our souls Till the little white animals perish ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... Hurricane reached the spot and began to ply screw-drivers and chisels until at length the strong lock yielded, and he opened ...
— Capitola the Madcap • Emma D. E. N. Southworth


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