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Pleats
- noun - any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape
- fold into pleats, "Pleat the cloth"
- pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric"
Plebes
- noun - a military trainee (as at a military academy)
Plexus
- noun - a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels
Pliers
- noun - a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws
- someone who plies a trade
Ploces
- noun - (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning
Plonks
- noun - a cheap wine of inferior quality
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He plonked the money on the table"; "He plonked himself into the sofa"
- the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)
Plucks
- noun - look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
- pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
Plumbs
- noun - adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
- examine thoroughly and in great depth
- measure the depth of something
- the metal bob of a plumb line
- weight with lead
Plumes
- noun - a feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament
- anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness; "a plume of smoke"; "grass with large plumes"
- be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school"
- clean with one's bill; "The birds preened"
- deck with a plume; "a plumed helmet"
- dress or groom with elaborate care; "She likes to dress when going to the opera"
- form a plume; "The chimneys were pluming the sky"; "The engine was pluming black smoke"
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
Plumps
- noun - drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates"
- make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He plonked the money on the table"; "He plonked himself into the sofa"
- the sound of a sudden heavy fall