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noun

Plat n. Work done by platting or braiding; a plait. "Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat."

Plat n. A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground. "This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve." "I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground."

Plat n.

The flat or broad side of a sword. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)

A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "To note all the islands, and to set them down in plat."

verb

Plat v. t. (past & past part. platted; pres. part. platting) To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. "They had platted a crown of thorns."

Plat v. t. To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.

adjective

Plat adj. Plain; flat; level. (Obs.)

adverb

Plat adv.

Plainly; flatly; downright. (Obs.) "But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat."

Flatly; smoothly; evenly. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Plat'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plat" Quotes from Famous Books

... instruction, but certain points in his method of teaching made a most distinct impression upon me. Lectures we had, of course, for lecturing was the orthodox method of class instruction. But this man did something more than merely lecture. He assigned each one of his students a plat of ground on the college farm. Upon this plat of ground, a definite experiment was to be conducted. One of my experiments had to do with the smut of oats. I was to try the effect of treating the seed with hot water in order ...

— Craftsmanship in Teaching • William Chandler Bagley

... great and continued sale, and the last unquestionably the book of greatest circulation in the whole world, the Bible only excepted; having, during these same twenty-nine years of troubles and embarrassments without number, introduced into England the manufacture of Straw-plat; also several valuable trees; having introduced, during the same twenty-nine years, the cultivation of the Corn-plant, so manifestly valuable as a source of food; having, during the same period, always (whether in exile or not) sustained a ...

— Advice to Young Men • William Cobbett

... coming over the sunny plat. He was not lettered, yet he should have heard the whisper of the Amorist—"Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair, thou hast ...

— The Forest Lovers • Maurice Hewlett

... his plain little cottage with his wife and daughter, and still plied his humble task as the village cobbler, essaying sometimes to make shoes when there were none to be repaired. There was a plat of land belonging to his house rather more than an acre in extent, but land was cheap in Hampton, and it is doubtful whether both house and lot would have brought, if thrown into the market, over one thousand dollars. ...

— Ben's Nugget - A Boy's Search For Fortune • Horatio, Jr. Alger

... to look eastward. "It isn't far from this station. But even if we reached it, it would be up-stream, against a succession of rapids, from here to Wenatchee. A boat would be impossible." He folded the plat and put it away, then asked ...

— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson

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