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▪ I. plet, n.1 Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.
[Collateral form of plait n., going with plet v.]
= plait n.
c1450Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. v. lxvi. (Bodl. MS.), Þe plettes of wommanes heere bene ykutte and ybounde with laces. 1595Duncan App. Etymol. (E.D.S.), Lacinia, a plet, or rag. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 16 Fold-hankes or hankinges..which is as thicke againe as plough-string, being a loose kinde of two plettes. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Pletts, folds or gathers of linen. Ibid., Plet, work performed by platting.
▪ II. ‖ plet, n.2|plɛt|
Also plete, plitt.
[a. Russ. pleti scourge, whip.]
A three-thonged whip loaded with lead, formerly used for flogging in Russia.
1864Webster, Plitt, an instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia. 1870‘W. M. Cooper’ Flagellation & Flagellants xxvi. 259 The plêt is a whip made of strips of raw hide, and having three lashes tipped with small leaden balls. 1885A. Griffiths in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 762/2 There is another flagellator,..called the plete, a whip of twisted hide,..retained at a few of the most distant Siberian prisons.
▪ III. plet, v. Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.
pa. tense plet(t, plat; pa. pple. plet(t; also pletted.
[Collateral form of plait v., going with plet n.1]
1. trans. To intertwine (strands) so as to form one combined texture; = plait v. 2; also to form (a garland, band, or the like) by this process; = plait v. 2 d. Also in mod. dial. to cross (the legs); = plait v. 3.
c1450Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. v. lxvi. (Bodl. MS.), Wymmenes heere is..ipletted [W. de W. 1495 pleted] and ybounde with laces. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 4619 A corovne of sharpest thornes mayde thyne Enemys plettyng. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. viii. (Preach. Swallow) xlii, The feind plettis his nettis scharpe and rude. 1513Douglas æneis ix. ii. 64 The wyld wolf..Abowt the bowght, plet all of wandis tyght, Bayis and gyrnis. a1600Montgomerie Misc. Poems xix. 5 A garland properly sho plets, To set vpon hir heid. 1600Fairfax Tasso xiv. lxviii, Of woodbines, lillies, and of roses sweete,..All pletted fast, well knit, and ioyned meete. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. iv, For thee I plet the flow'ry belt and snood. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Plet, to plat. 1839J. M. Wilson Tales of Borders V. 251/2 He plets his legs, and passes his hand along his leg. 1903In E.D.D. from Shetland to North Lincolnsh.
†2. To fold; to fold in one's arms. Obs.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxvii. 3258 Wyth blyth chere thare he hym plet In [his] armis so thankfully. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. xi. 4 Bayth hir armys abowt hys feit [scho] plet, Enbrasyng thame and kyssand reuerently. 1536Bellenden Cosmogr. xi, Thir salmond..spawnis, with thair wamis plet to uthir. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxviii. 8 Quhen þat I went with þat sweit may,..And oft tymes in my armis plet hir.
†3. To bind, tie up, make fast. Obs.
1560Rolland Crt. Venus iv. 364 To se his handis into ane cord thus plet. 1585James VI Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 37, I had farr rather Babell tower forthsett, Then the thre Grecian hilles on others plett.
4. mod. dial. To fold, to wrinkle.
1861Quinn Heather (1863) 123 Care in wan wrinkles deeply plettin' Nell's bonnie face.
Hence plet ppl. a., plaited, intertwined.
1503Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 231 Vj elne braid ribanes to be ane plet suord belt to the King. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 15 Throw pykis of the plet thorne I presandlie luikit.
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