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ploy

ploy is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Sport; frolic. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
  2. 2.To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy. Wilhelm.

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

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