English Explanatory Dictionary

pleyt

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A riverboat.
noun
  1. A whip, as an instrument of punishment or torture in Russia.

Word forms

pleyt pleyts

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pleyt (“flat”). Doublet of flat and plat.

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