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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
ply .
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Examples
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Men's eyes with hunger; thou swift Foe that pliest
Hippolytus/The Bacchae 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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As thou pliest thy trade in this devil's-smithy --
Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904
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"Art thou Ravoo, that thou so pliest thy legs?" say these islanders, to one encountered in a hurry.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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As thou pliest thy trade in this devil's-smithy --
Browning's Shorter Poems Robert Browning 1850
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Old pliest use him for high celemony, "was the answer.
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
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