pleyt
pleyt noun: a riverboat.
Noun (1)
pleyt (plural pleyts)
- A riverboat.
- In the second group a variety of ships may be placed: a boeyer, a pleyt, a krayer, an ever, a cogge, a bark, a hulk, and from the middle of the 15th century onwards a carvel.1954, Nelly Johanna Martina Kerling, Commercial Relations of Holland and Zeeland with England from the Late 13th Century to the Close of the Middle Ages
- The model on display belongs to the family of the "pleyt" or "pleitscip"."2011, Money and Beauty, Giunti Editore, →ISBN, page 186
Noun (2)
pleyt (plural pleyts)
- A whip, as an instrument of punishment or torture in Russia.
- In Russia, the pleyt is a terrible form of punishment, which is still, I believe, administered in rare instances in Siberia. It is not ten years ago that a woman was flogged to death in Siberia.1896, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, Round about Armenia: The Record of a Journey Across the Balkans Through Turkey, the Caucasus, and Persia in 1895
- In 1836, near the town of Krasnophinsk, in the province of Perm, a man, about sixty years of age, was arrested as a vagrant. He received twenty blows with the pleyt or knout, and was sent to Siberia.1908, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, The Court of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, volume 1, page 138
Forms of pleyt
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Origin of pleyt
From Middle Dutch pleyt (“flat”). Doublet of flat and plat.
Borrowed from Russian плеть (pletʹ, “whip, lash”).
Questions about pleyt
- What does pleyt mean?
- Pleyt means a riverboat.
- What part of speech is pleyt?
- Pleyt is a noun.
- What is the plural of pleyt?
- The plural of pleyt is pleyts.
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