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PLAT
plat
(noun) a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)
plat, plot
(verb) make a plat of; “Plat the town”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
plat (plural plats)
A plot of land; a lot.
A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
(obsolete) A plot, a scheme.
Verb
plat (third-person singular simple present plats, present participle platting, simple past and past participle platted)
(transitive) To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.
Etymology 2
Noun
plat (plural plats)
A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
Verb
plat (third-person singular simple present plats, present participle platting, simple past and past participle platted)
(dated, except, regional England) To braid, to plait.
Etymology 3
Adjective
plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)
(obsolete, except, Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
Adverb
plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)
(obsolete, except, Scotland) Flatly, plainly.
Synonyms: bluntly, directly, straightforwardly
Anagrams
• PTAL, TLPA
Source: Wiktionary
Plat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Platted; p. pr. & vb. n. Platting.] Etym: [See Plait.]
Definition: To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. "They had platted a crown of thorns." Matt. xxvii. 29.
Plat, n.
Definition: Work done by platting or braiding; a plait. Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak.
Plat, n. Etym: [Cf. Plat flat, which perh. caused this spelling, and Plot a piece of ground.]
Definition: 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.
Plat, v. t.
Definition: To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
Plat, a. Etym: [F. plat. See Plate, n.]
Definition: Plain; flat; level. [Obs.] Gower.
Plat, adv.
1. Plainly; flatly; downright. [Obs.] But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat. Rom. of R.
2. Flatly; smoothly; evenly. [Obs.] Drant.
Plat, n.
1. The flat or broad side of a sword. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.
2. 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
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