plat

Definitions

1. 1.Work done by platting or braiding; a plait. Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak.
2. 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.
3. 3.To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
4. 4.Plain; flat; level. [Obs.] Gower.
5. 5.Plainly; flatly; downright. [Obs.] But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat. Rom. of R.
6. 6.Flatly; smoothly; evenly. [Obs.] Drant.
7. 7.The flat or broad side of a sword. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.
8. 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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is work done by platting or braiding; a plait. Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak called?
• What is to lay out in plats or plots, as ground called?
• What is plainly; flatly; downright. [Obs.] But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat. Rom. of R called?
• What is the flat or broad side of a sword. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer called?
• What is 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 called?