Plat

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Work done by platting or braiding; a plait. Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground. This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve. Milton. I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground. Tennyson.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The flat or broad side of a sword. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.

2. A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "To note all the islands, and to set them down in plat." Hakluyt.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. "They had platted a crown of thorns." Matt. xxvii. 29.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Plain; flat; level. [Obs.] Gower.

Part of speech: adverb (adv.)

1. Plainly; flatly; downright. [Obs.] But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat. Rom. of R.

2. Flatly; smoothly; evenly. [Obs.] Drant.