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▪ I. platter1|ˈplætə(r)|
Forms: 4–6 plater, 5 platere, (6 Sc. plaitter), 6– platter.
[ME. plater a. AF. plater (Bozon), deriv. of plat dish.]
1. a. A flat dish or plate for food; in later usage often a wooden plate. Now chiefly arch.
13..Coer de L. 1490 Bye us vessel gret plente, Dysschys, cuppys and sawsers, Bolles, treyes, and platers. c1330Arth. & Merl. 2270 Alder-next his side he sat, And of his dische and plater at. 1382Wyclif Matt. xxiii. 25 Woo to ȝou, scribis and Pharisees, ipocritis, that maken clene that thing of the cuppe and plater, that is with outforth. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxiv. 153 Þe grettest prelate..lays it apon a grete plater of siluer. 1474Caxton Chesse 26 Ete his mete out of platers and dysshes of tree and of wode. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 7 §7 Untrue..Workmanship..in Platters, Chargers, Dishes. 1526Tindale Matt. xiv. 8 Geve me here John baptistes heed in a platter. 1571Satir. Poems Reform. xxviii. 118 Plaitter nor pois we neuer left ane plak. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Impr. (1746) 235 Fish coming out of a Pan is not to be covered with a Platter, lest the Vapour congealed in the Platter drop down again upon the Fish. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 196 While his lov'd partner..Displays her cleanly platter on the board. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 58 Half a dozen great Delft platters, hung..by way of pictures. 1851Layard Pop. Acc. Discov. Nineveh vii. 123 The girls..returned, each bearing a platter of fruit which they placed before me.
b. In colloq. phr. to hand (something to someone) on a (silver) platter = to hand on a plate s.v. plate n. 19 a; platters of meat (Rhyming slang) = plates of meat s.v. plate n. 19 d; also ellipt. as platters.
1918T. Wolfe Let. 18 Feb. (1958) 8 You don't get anything handed to you on a silver platter. 1923J. Manchon Le Slang 227 Plates of meat,.. = feet. On dit aussi platters of meat. 1945L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 16/1 Platters.., big feet. 1960J. Franklyn Dict. Rhyming Slang 108/2 Platters of meat, feet. 20 C., a form of plates..and not used in Cockney circles. 1960G. Sanders Mem. Professional Cad i. vii. 55, I was otherwise engaged at the time building a telescope in my back garden and being, by vocation, a dilettante, this interested me far more than the golden future which Mr. Mayer was going to offer me on a silver platter. 1968J. Updike Couples iii. 229 It's you who want to keep them down, to give them on a platter everything everybody else in this country has had to work for. 1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 92 Platters, feet. 1973New Yorker 3 Feb. 49/1 Other things are handed to you on a platter.
c. attrib. and Comb., as platter-case, platter-mat, platter-mouth, platter-plate; platter-shaped adj.; platter-face, a broad, round, flat face; so platter-faced a.; platter-foot dial., a flat foot; platter pull, a type of ski-lift (see quots.).
1793Smeaton Edystone L. §303 In the kitchen..were two settles with lockers, a dresser with drawers, two cup⁓boards, and one *platter case.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iv. i. (1651) 519 Though she..have a swoln Juglers *platter face, or a thin, lean, chitty face. 1675Cotton Scoffer Scoft 116 Her pale, full moon, platter face. 1922Joyce Ulysses 374 Some good matronly woman..to mother him. Take him in tow, platter face and a large apron.
1533Udall Flowres Lat. Sp. 199 b, That reed heeded, grey eyed, *plater⁓faced, and hawkenosed wenche. 1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 391 The Platter-fac'd Deity Bacchus. 1834Sir F. B. Head Bubbles Brunnen 7 Holland is but a platter-faced..country, after all.
1897F. T. Jane Lordship, Passen & We xix. 213 She..set out as brave a *platter-foot as a man could wish for to see.
1567Golding Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) 360 At his nostrils and His *platter mouth did puffe out part of sea upon the land.
1871G. Meredith H. Richmond xv, He and the dog took alternate bites off a *platter-shaped cake.
1951Amer. Ski Ann. & Skiing Jrnl. 1952 30 (Advt.), Belleayre Mountain..Chair Lift Rope Tow *Platter Pull Lifts. 1953Ibid. 1954 117/2 The J- and T-bar are a form of seat. Later..came..the platter pull, a platter-shaped seat. These lifts are basically the same and tow the skier from an overhead cable. 1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 206 Platter pull,..a kind of pull transporting skiers uphill. The skier places between the thighs a rubber or plastic disk which is suspended, usually on a bar, from a rope or a cable permanently fixed to the lift cable. 1970M. Bennett How to ski just a Little Bit ii. 87 A platter pull, sometimes also called a poma, looks as if you took a T-bar, bent it a little, cut the crosspiece off, and attached instead a flat, slightly oval disc approximately six inches in diameter.
2. slang. A gramophone record. Cf. plate n. 19 g.
1931H. Mutschmann Gloss. Americanisms 46/2 Platter, a gramophone record. 1935Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 38/1 There ought to be a hot coupling on every platter. 1943H. A. Smith Putty Knife 163, I bought a couple of Crosby platters. 1960Master Detective July 83/2 Rock and Roll, that's what I'm good at. I got a terrific collection of platters. 1967‘T. Wells’ Dead by Light of Moon xviii. 184, I went into Fink Roth's pad and found treasures. Good old platters and stamps. I sold them. Got a good price for the records. The stamps were only so-so. 1977Sounds 9 July 18/1 ‘Starz’—as the premier platter was called—was hardly the strongest product ever to find its way on to the record racks.
3. The metal disc of a turntable unit, on which the record is placed for playing.
1975Gramophone Jan. 1297 (Advt.), With the heavy platter and extra thick turn-table mat, our final figures are impressive. 1975Hi-Fi Answers Feb. 66/1 Trouble was experienced with ferrous platters inducing a high level of hum.
▪ II. platter2
[f. plat v.3 + -er1.]
One who or that which plats or plaits; a plaiter.
1818Todd, Platter. 2 [from To plat.] One who plats or weaves. Hence1828in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |