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What does "plat" mean?

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

Additional senses

  1. 2.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. Milton. I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground. Tennyson.
  2. 3.To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
  3. 4.Plain; flat; level. [Obs.] Gower.
  4. 5.Plainly; flatly; downright. [Obs.] But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat. Rom. of R.
  5. 6.Flatly; smoothly; evenly. [Obs.] Drant.
  6. 7.The flat or broad side of a sword. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.
  7. 8.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." Hakluyt.

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