platter
platter is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One who plats or braids.
- 2.A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is brought to the table. The attendants . . . speedly brought in several large, smoking platters, filled with huge pieces of beef. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- bed
- board
- coat
- course
- cover
- covering
- cut
- dess
- discoid
- escarpment
- eschar
- even
- film
- flag
- flagstone
- flake
- flat
- flatness
- flatten
- floor
- flounder
- fluke
- flush
- foil
- hand
- horizontal
- integument
- lamella
- lamina
- layer
- leaf
- level
- membrane
- nest
- onion
- pancake
- pare
- peel
- pellicle
- plane
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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