Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of making interwoven or platted work.
- noun A fabric made of fibers, bundles of fibers, or thin slips of any pliable material, such as cane or straw.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
plat . - noun archaic
plaited strips ofbark ,cane ,straw , etc., used for makinghats or the like.
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Examples
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The women are very expert at platting, which is usually done with three threads of sinew; if greater strength is required, several of these are twisted slackly together, as in the bowstrings.
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The women are very expert at platting, which is usually done with three threads of sinew; if greater strength is required, several of these are twisted slackly together, as in the bowstrings.
Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage
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I call it “isotropic platting” after the “isobar”.
Province pushes Evergreen Line ‘aggressively’ « Stephen Rees's blog
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The end of the era of platting places to respond to human sense experience was coming at about the same time as the CPR townsites were being laid out in Western Canada.
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The resulting urban quality is a function of how each building is designed to fit in with the others; and it is a function of how the street pattern and the block size together, the “platting” was laid out.
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Even compared to the platting that we see on the west end, the CPR platting of the 500 acres granted the CPR on the downtown peninsula could not have been more ham-fisted.
Vancouver says goodbye to Olympic streetcar « Stephen Rees's blog
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Some girls are braiding or platting each other's hair; others are washing dirty pots or clothes.
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“Intense fever was stirred in the blood of men by the hope and belief that a company of them, or possibly only one or two could get together, take a tract of government land worth $1.25 an acre, and simply by platting it into lots and calling it a town make it worth at once from $1000 to $3000 per acre.”
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His way of platting it calls attention to degree of hockey stickness more.
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For women, while they paint, perfume, and adorn themselves with jewels and purple robes, are accounted gaudy and profuse; yet nobody will find fault with them for washing their faces, anointing themselves, or platting their hair.
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