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PLY
ply
(verb) use diligently; “ply your wits!”
provide, supply, ply, cater
(verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; “The hostess provided lunch for all the guests”
ply
(verb) wield vigorously; “ply an axe”
ply
(verb) join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding; “ply fabric”
ply, run
(verb) travel a route regularly; “Ships ply the waters near the coast”
ply
(verb) apply oneself diligently; “Ply one’s trade”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
plied
simple past tense and past participle of ply
Anagrams
• diple, lepid, piled, pleid
Source: Wiktionary
Plied,
Definition: imp. & p. p. of Ply.
PLY
Ply, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plied; p. pr. & vb. n. Plying.] Etym: [OE.
plien, F. plier to fold, to bend, fr. L. plicare; akin to Gr.
flechten. Cf. Apply, Complex, Display, Duplicity, Employ, Exploit,
Implicate, Plait, Pliant, Flax.]
1. To bend. [Obs.]
As men may warm wax with handes plie. Chaucer.
2. To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with
repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one
with questions, with solicitations, or with drink.
And plies him with redoubled strokes Dryden.
He plies the duke at morning and at night. Shak.
3. To employ diligently; to use steadily.
Go ply thy needle; meddle not. Shak.
4. To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.
Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply. Waller.
Ply, v. i.
1. To bend; to yield. [Obs.]
It would rather burst atwo than plye. Chaucer.
The willow plied, and gave way to the gust. L'Estrange.
2. To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do
something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer
plies between certain ports.
Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard
and daily). Milton.
He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter. Addison.
The heavy hammers and mallets plied. Longfellow.
3. (Naut.)
Definition: To work to windward; to beat.
Ply, n. Etym: [Cf. F. pli, fr. plier. See Ply, v.]
1. A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord. Arbuthnot.
2. Bent; turn; direction; bias.
The late learners can not so well take the ply. Bacon.
Boswell, and others of Goldsmith's contemporaries, . . . did not
understand the secret plies of his character. W. Irving.
The czar's mind had taken a strange ply, which it retained to the
last. Macaulay.
Note: Ply is used in composition to designate folds, or the number of
webs interwoven; as, a three-ply carpet.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition