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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plat \Plat\, noun Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plat \Plat\, noun [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.
This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve. --Milton.
I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plat \Plat\, verb (used with an object) To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plat \Plat\, adjective [F. plat. See {Plate}, noun] Plain; flat; level. [Obs.] --Gower.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plat \Plat\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plat \Plat\, adverb
1. Plainly; flatly; downright. [Obs.]
But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat. --Rom. of R.
2. Flatly; smoothly; evenly. [Obs.] --Drant.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plat \Plat\, noun
1. The flat or broad side of a sword. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
plat
noun: a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)
verb: make a plat of; "Plat the town" [syn: {plot}] [also: {platting}, {platted}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "plat": accordion pleat, acres, block, box pleat, chattels real, clearing, clos, close, corn field, crease, crimp, crisp, croft, cultivated land, demesne, dog-ear, domain, double, double over, enclave, enfold, field, flounce, flute, fold, fold over, forty, frill, gather, grounds, hayfield, honor, infold, interfold, knife pleat, kraal, land, landed property, lands, lap over, lot, lots, manor, messuage, paddy, pale, parcel, parcel of land, patch, piece of land, plait, pleat, plicate, plot, plot of ground, ply, praedium, property, quad, quadrangle, quadrat, quill, real estate, real property, realty, rice paddy, ruff, ruffle, section, square, tenements, toft, tract, tuck, turn over, twill, wheat field
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