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plitts

plitts is the plural of plitt.

Meaning of plitt

Noun

plitt (plural plitts)

  1. (historical) An instrument of punishment resembling the knout, formerly used in Russia.
    • Not a few of these carry with them the germ of inevitable death, their frames being enfeebled, and their constitutions broken by having undergone the cruel sentence of the plitt.1846, Charles Frederick Henningsen, Revelations of Russia in 1846

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Proper noun capitalized: Plitts

Plitts

  1. (plural) plural of Plitt

Questions about plitts

What is plitts the plural of?
Plitts is the plural of plitt.
What part of speech is plitts?
Plitts is a proper noun.

Words near plitts in the dictionary

  1. plissés
  2. plithotaxis
  3. plitt
  4. Plitteris
  5. Plitterises
  6. plitts
  7. Plitvička Jezera
  8. Pliushchivka
  9. plié
  10. plié squat
  11. pliés

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