Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
play . - To boil.
- To boil; especially, to boil slightly
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- verb intransitive To
boil ;seethe . - verb transitive To boil; boil slightly;
parboil . - noun A
boiling .
Etymologies
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From Middle English plawen, playen, plaȝen, from Old English plagian, a dialectal (Anglian) variant of Old English pleġian ("to move about quickly, play"). More at play.
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Posted March 28, 2007 at 6:41 pm | Permalink saw the plaw with radcliffe in it…. he pretty must destroyed his role as harry potter… he has certainly grown up.. and yes in this role he was amazing…. so good in fact… for the remainder of the play, he was naked but you completely forgot about that becauseof the intensity of the scenes and his acting. a MUST see raincoaster
Gammerstang commented on the word plaw
(verb/noun) - To parboil. A slight boiling. If meat seems likely to be tainted before it can be dressed, the cook must "give it a plow" to check the progress of decay and, if possible, keep it a little while at stand. In John Ray's South and East Country Words 1674 the same word is written play. He speaks of a "playing heat," and says that in Norfolk it is pronounced plaw. It may be from some French term of cookery, in books not easily accessible, or it may have descended to us from Anglo-Saxon pleoh danger. --Rev. Robert Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830
February 8, 2018