plat

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

plat, v. t. [See Plait.].

 To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.  Matt. xxvii. 29.  [1913 Webster]

plat, n. 

 Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.  [1913 Webster]
"Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat."  [1913 Webster]

plat, n. [Cf. Plat flat, which perh. caused this spelling, and Plot a piece of ground.].

 A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.  [1913 Webster]
"This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve."  [1913 Webster]
"I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground."  [1913 Webster]

plat, v. t. 

 To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.  [1913 Webster]

plat, a. [F. plat. See Plate, n.].

 Plain; flat; level.  Gower.  [1913 Webster]

plat, adv. 

•  Plainly; flatly; downright.  [1913 Webster]

  "But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat."  [1913 Webster]
•  Flatly; smoothly; evenly.  Drant.  [1913 Webster]

plat, n. 

•  The flat or broad side of a sword.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.  Hakluyt.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

plat, n. US 1 a plot of land.
2 a plan of an area of land.

plat, n. & v.
--n. = PLAIT n. 1.
--v.tr. (platted, platting) = PLAIT v.

THESAURUS

plat

accordion pleat, acres, block, box pleat, chattels real, clearing, clos, close, corn field, crease, crimp, crisp, croft, cultivated land, demesne, dog-ear, domain, double, double over, enclave, enfold, field, flounce, flute, fold, fold over, forty, frill, gather, grounds, hayfield, honor, infold, interfold, knife pleat, kraal, land, landed property, lands, lap over, lot, lots, manor, messuage, paddy, pale, parcel, parcel of land, patch, piece of land, plait, pleat, plicate, plot, plot of ground, ply, praedium, property, quad, quadrangle, quadrat, quill, real estate, real property, realty, rice paddy, ruff, ruffle, section, square, tenements, toft, tract, tuck, turn over, twill, wheat field

ROGET THESAURUS

plat

Crossing

VB cross, decussate, intersect, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, interdigitate, interlink, twine, entwine, weave, inweave, twist, wreathe, anastomose, inosculate, dovetail, splice, link, lace, tat, mat, plait, plat, braid, felt, twill, tangle, entangle, ravel, net, knot, dishevel, raddle.

Plain

N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.