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ploating

ploating is the present participle and gerund of ploat.

Meaning of ploat

Verb

ploat (third-person singular simple present ploats, present participle ploating, simple past and past participle ploated)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To pluck or strip off.
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To plunder or rifle.

Questions about ploating

What is ploating the present participle and gerund of?
Ploating is the present participle and gerund of ploat.

Words near ploating in the dictionary

  1. PLMNs
  2. PLMs
  3. PLO
  4. ploat
  5. ploated
  6. ploating
  7. ploats
  8. ploc
  9. ploce
  10. ploceid
  11. ploceids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ploating (page history and authors); ploat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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