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Pleat
- 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"
Pleyt
- - An old term for a river boat.
Plitt
- - An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia.
Point
- noun - a brief version of the essential meaning of something; "get to the point"; "he missed the point of the joke"; "life has lost its point"
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list; "he noticed an item in the New York Times"; "she had several items on her shopping list"; "the main point on the agenda was taken up first"
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic; "he knows my bad points as well as my good points"
- a geometric element that has position but no extension; "a point is defined by its coordinates"
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water; "they sailed south around the point"
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence t
Posit
- noun - (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
- put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"
- put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
- take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature"
Poult
- - A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.
- Fine corded silk or taffeta