Sekirov Dictionary

plat

/plæt/

noun 7
adjective 1
adverb 1
verb 2
forms 5

noun7

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A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
- The purpose of the preapplication conference is to allow the developer to meet informally with the planning board before going to the expense of preparing a formal plat. — 1982
•
A plot of land; a lot.
- Such pleasure took the Serpent to behold This Flourie Plat, the sweet recess of Eve Thus earlie, thus alone; [...] — 1667
•
A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
- Her haire nor loose nor ti'd in formall plat, / Proclaimd in her a carelesse hand of pride; [...] — 1609
•
Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
- The large silver medal and twenty guineas, were this Session given to Miss Sophia Woodhouse, (Mrs. Wells,) of Weathersfield, in Connecticut, United States, for a new Material for Straw Plat. — 1824
Clipping of platform
(slang) Clipping of platform game
(no longer used) A plot, a scheme.

adjective1

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Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
- But now, youngster, I have answered you freely, and I trow it is time that you answered me. Let things be plat and plain between us. I am a man who shoots straight at his mark. — 1891

adverb1

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Flatly, plainly.
- Fourth, see [that] thou hide nothing, nor dissemble, but speak plat, and plainly as much as thou knowest. — 1547

verb2

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To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.
- He platted his land, extending the lateral lines of the lots south of Shore, or India street, indefinitely out into the river. — 1902
•
To braid, to plait.
- And when they had platted a crowne of thornes, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, haile king of the Jewes. — 1611

forms

platted · platting · plats · more plat · most plat

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