plat

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Two, they could opt not to do the assessment and place a statement on the final plat (a plat is a map of proposed changes to a piece of property) indicating that - although that only does any good if the buyer reviews the plans.

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  1. transitive verb To plait or braid.
  2. noun A braid.
  3. noun A piece of land; a plot.
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  • Then he would call and ask for the plat, and, after considerable pawing, he would say, “Well, Charlie, I guess I'll take that forty.” Whereupon the transaction would be completed by my taking his greenbacks and giving him a certificate of purchase for the forty acres of timber-land that had cost him seventy-five cents an acre, and later probably netted him not less than three hundred dollars an acre for stumpage alone. —  A Backward Glance at Eighty
  • Under the rocks in one place he showed us a little plat, about as large as a closet door, which, he said, laughing, was their garden. —  Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2
  • The Corporation of Oxford was dismissed on Wednesday last with a reprimand that is to be printed; un discours assez plat, as I have heard. —  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • In fact the plat is trumpet vine, a very common vine sold across upstate New York. —  RNews - TOP STORIES
  • If the preliminary plat is approved, then the land will need to be annexed before final plat approval. —  The News-Gazette Local Stories
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  1. Middle English platen, alteration of plaiten, to fold, braid; see plait.
  2. Middle English, probably alteration (influenced by plat, something flat) of plot; see plot.

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  1. from Middle English platten, pletten, from Anglo-Saxon plættan, strike with the hand, slap, = Middle Dutch pletten, strike, bruise, crush, rub (freq. plelteren), = Swedish dial. plätta, variant pjätta, tap, pat. Cf. pat, prob. a reduced form of plat.
  2. Early modern English platte; a variant of plot, from Middle English plot, from Anglo-Saxon plot, a plot of ground: see plot. The form plat may be merely dial., but is prob. due in part to plat.
  3. from ptat, n. Cf. plot, v.
  4. from Middle English plat, plait, platte = Dutch plat = Middle Low German plat, Low German platt = German platt = Swedish platt = Danish plat, flat, level, low; from Old French (and F.) plat = Provencal plat = Spanish Portuguese plato = Italian piatto, flat, level (Middle Latin *platus, *plattus, only as a noun, after Roman: see plate), from Or. πλατύς, flat, wide, broad, = Lithuanian platus, broad, = Sanskrit prithu, wide, broad, from √ prath, spread out, broaden; prob. ult. connected with English flawn (Old High German flado, etc.), a flat cake (see flawn), but not with English flat (see flat). From the same ult. source are plate, pate, place, plaza, piazza, plaice, plane, plateau, platina, platitude, platter, etc.: see especially plate.
  5. Middle English plat, platte; from plat, a.
  6. = Dutch pletten = German plätten, lay flat, flatten; from the adjective: see plat, a.
  7. from Middle English platten; a variant of plait: see plait.
  8. from plat, v.
 

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