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ground-plot
1. The plot or portion of ground occupied or covered by a building, etc.; foundation. ? Obs.
1580Sidney Ps. xi. iii, That in building they begunn With ground-plotts fall, shall be undunn. 1624Wotton Elem. Archit. i. 26, I haue sayd nothing of..Pyling of the Ground-plot..when we build vpon a moist or marshy soile. 1679Moxon Mech. Exerc. I. 130 Suppose your Ground-plot be a Long-square, 50 Foot in length, and 20 Foot wide: This Ground-plot will contain in its length two good Rooms, and a Yard behind it 10 Foot long. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. ii. 28 The tide, as it rises, converts a part of the ground-plot into a temporary island.
fig.1834Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. 1846 II. 284/1 The foolishest dolts are the ground-plot of the most wit.
†2. = ground-plan 1. Obs.
1563Shute Archit. B iij b, How to cast your ground plotte, wherin you must deuide all your seuerall places of offices. 1663Gerbier Counsel g j a, Nor are the lines for the ground plots of Houses to serve for Castles in the Aire. 1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2651/4 A large Parchment Writing containing two Skins, with a Ground-Plot annex'd to it.
†3. = ground-plan 2. Obs.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 52 They schal vse the narration, but as an imaginative groundplot of a profitable inuention. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits i. (1596) 23 All that which Galen writeth in..his booke is the ground-plot of this my Treatise. 1677Govt. Venice 1 An Epitome of the whole History, and..a Scheme or Ground-plot to my Work. 1794Mathias Pursuits Lit. (1798) 243 Method was all; yet would he seldom write: He fear'd the ground-plot wrong, or—out of sight. |