Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See plier.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.
  • noun See pliers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.
  • noun Alternative spelling of plier.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who plies a trade

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Examples

  • So high that you as a plyer are trusted to keep your own score.

    That Christian Bale freakout is now the "Bale Out" remix. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Each plyer must coordinate his or her actions with others, and they must do it not simply in a reflective, leisurely fashion, but on the fly, in an embodied and urgent manner; the goal is to be able to act and react as a group, ready to face any new contingency that presents itself.

    I Love the Smell of Burning Crusade in the Morning 2007

  • Each plyer must coordinate his or her actions with others, and they must do it not simply in a reflective, leisurely fashion, but on the fly, in an embodied and urgent manner; the goal is to be able to act and react as a group, ready to face any new contingency that presents itself.

    Trust, Contingency, and WoW Guilds 2006

  • The assistants had just arranged two baskets filled with bran along each side of the machine; one was destined to receive the severed head, the other the body when that was released from the plyer.

    Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894

  • The piano is the most prominent plyer here, joined by guitar and a variety of other sounds.

    Thestar.com - Home Page John Terauds 2011

  • Batsman Gautam Gambhir has become the latest plyer on India's injured list.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Comment posted by Ramon on March 31, 2009 at 10: 53 pm yes but we must get another afr american plyer if we dump marlon per ny times!!!! right

    Mets Geek 2009

  • November 17th, 2008 at 1: 15 pm can you tell me how i can download this song-the yahoo media plyer on your site / server doesn't allow downloads??? never used to be this way

    Aurgasm 2009

  • It also does not mean that a plyer should not be responsible for any resulting injury/damage that he may cause.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

  • Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on March 31, 2009 at 10: 51 pm (#943149) yes but we must get another afr american plyer if we dump marlon per ny times!!!! right

    Mets Geek 2009

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