plat

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To plait or braid.
2. n. A braid.
3. n. A piece of land; a plot.
4. n. A map showing actual or planned features, such as streets and building lots.
5. v. To make a plat of: plat a new town.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To strike with the hand; strike.
2. n. A plot or patch of land laid off for or devoted to some particular purpose: as, a garden-ptat; a plat of ground.
3. n. A flat representation of such plots or patches; a map or plan.
4. n. A plan or design; scheme; plot.
5. To make a ground-plan of; map or plot; lay down on paper: as, to plat a tract of land; to plat a town.
6. Flat; level; plain.
7. Specifically, in lace-making, flat and of uniform texture: said of the sprigs or flowers; hence, in general, noting the sprigs of bobbinlace, which are flat, as compared with those of needle-point lace, which may have relief.
8. n. A beam or plank laid horizontally; a horizontal timber.
9. n. A large flat stone used as the landing-place of a stair.
10. n. The flat side of a sword.
11. n. The sole of the foot. Compare plant.
12. n. In mining, an enlargement of a level where it connects with a shaft used for raising ore, its object being to facilitate that operation, especially in mines where the ore is raised in kibbles.
13. Flatly; plainly; bluntly.
14. Smoothly; evenly.
15. To lay down flat or evenly; spread.
16. To iuterweave; make or shape by interweaving; wattle; plait. See plait.
17. To embrace.
18. n. A plaited or braided thing; something produced by plaiting or interweaving: as, straw plat for hats; a plat of hair.
19. n. Nautical, a braid of foxes. See fox, 4.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To strike with the hand; slap.
2. n. A braid.
3. v. To braid, to plait.
4. n. A plot of land; a lot.
5. n. A map showing property lines, especially as a legal document.
6. v. To create a plat, to lay out streets and building lots; to map.
7. n. online gaming Abbreviation for platinum coins, a currency used in the massively multiplayer online game Ultima Online.
8. n. obsolete The flat or broad side of a sword.
9. n. obsolete, UK, dialect A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram, map, or chart.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.
2. n. Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
3. n. A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.
4. v. To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
5. adj. obsolete Plain; flat; level.
6. adv. obsolete Plainly; flatly; downright.
7. adv. obsolete Flatly; smoothly; evenly.
8. n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. The flat or broad side of a sword.
9. n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)
2. v. make a plat of