plat

1. (transitive) To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.Examples: "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."transitive

1. (dated except regional England) To braid, to plait.Examples: "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."

1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.Examples: "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."

1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flatly, plainly.Examples: "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;"Synonyms: bluntly, directly, straightforwardly

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