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pleyts

pleyts is the plural of pleyt.

Meaning of pleyt

Noun (1)

pleyt (plural pleyts)

  1. (archaic) 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

Noun (2)

pleyt (plural pleyts)

  1. (historical) 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

Questions about pleyts

What is pleyts the plural of?
Pleyts is the plural of pleyt.

Words near pleyts in the dictionary

  1. plexures
  2. plexus
  3. plexus celiacus
  4. plexuses
  5. pleyt
  6. pleyts
  7. Pleșcuța
  8. Pleșoi
  9. Pleșoiu
  10. PLF
  11. plf.

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