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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

plat
    n 1: a map showing planned or actual features of an area
         (streets and building lots etc.)
    v 1: make a plat of; "Plat the town" [syn: plat, plot]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Plat \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.
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         This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve. --Milton.
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         I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground.   --Tennyson.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Plat \Plat\, v. t.
   To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Plat \Plat\, a. [F. plat. See Plate, n.]
   Plain; flat; level. [Obs.] --Gower.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Plat \Plat\, adv.
   1. Plainly; flatly; downright. [Obs.]
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            But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat.    --Rom. of R.
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   2. Flatly; smoothly; evenly. [Obs.] --Drant.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Plat \Plat\, n.
   1. The flat or broad side of a sword. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
      --Chaucer.
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   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.
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Plat \Plat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Platted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Platting.] [See Plait.]
   To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.
   "They had platted a crown of thorns." --Matt. xxvii. 29.
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8. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Plat \Plat\, n.
   Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
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         Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. --Shak.
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9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

PLAT. A map of a piece of land, in which are marked the courses and 
distances of the different lines, and the quantity of land it contains. 
     2. Such a plat;nay be given in evidence in ascertaining the position of 
the land, and what is included, and may serve to settle the figure of a 
survey, and correct mistakes. 5 Monr. 160. See 17 Mass. 211; 5 Greenl. 219; 
7 Greenl, 61; 4 Wheat. 444; 14 Mass. 149.

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