plat

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A plot of land

   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; [...]
   • O Blackbird! sing me something well: / While all the neighbours shoot thee round, / I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, / Where thou may’st warble, eat, and dwell.
2. 2

   A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land),…

   A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.

   • A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference.
   • 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.
3. 3

   A plot, a scheme.

   • [S]o shall our plat in this one point be larger and much surmount that which [Richard] Stanihurst first tooke in hand by his exameters dactilicke and spondaicke in the translation of Virgills Eneidos, [...]
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   1. 4

      To create a plat

      To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.

      • A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference.
      • He platted his land, extending the lateral lines of the lots south of Shore, or India street, indefinitely out into the river.
      • [...] it may vacate a street where the original Owner has merely platted his land to conform to streets already located and established by the municipality, where no lot has been sold by such owner prior to such vacation.
   2. 5

      A braid

      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; [...]
      • they also wear a cap or cup on the head formed of beargrass and cedar bark. the men also frequently attatch some small ornament to a small plat of hair on the center of the crown of their heads.
      • […] hair ornamented with a bandeau of gold on one side of the forehead, with a large pearl in the centre of the bandeau; on the opposite side is a plat of hair.
   3. 6

      Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw…

      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.
      • Mr. Corston states that 781,605 straw hats had been imported from 1794 to 1803; and that in the last four years of that period 5281 lbs. of straw-plat, which was equal to 26,405 hats, had also been brought to this country.
   4. 7

      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.
      • A customer hailed him; he placed the stool on the ground, and the customer seated himself upon it, while the barber shaved his face, platted his hair, and washed his hands [...]
      • She platted her hair in segments the night before, so that today she’d have a rippling effect through her hair.
   5. 8

      Flat

      Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.

      • But else, hold alway^([sic]) your tail fast between your legs that he catch you not thereby; and hold down your ears lying plat after your head that he hold you not thereby; and see wisely to yourself.
      • 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.
      • The whirling wheel and speedy swift axle-tree / Smat down to ground, and on the earth lay plat.
   6. 9

      Flatly, plainly.

      • Fourth, see [that] thou hide nothing, nor dissemble, but speak plat, and plainly as much as thou knowest.
      • But single out, and say once plat and plain / That coy Matrona is a courtesan;
   7. 10

      Clipping of platform

   8. 11

      Clipping of platform game

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