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Plitt
- - An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia.
Ploce
- noun - (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning
Plods
- noun - the act of walking with a slow heavy gait; "I could recognize his plod anywhere"
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
Ploid
- unknown - Complete set of chromosomes
Plonk
- 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)
Plops
- noun - drop something with a plopping sound
- drop with the sound of something falling into water
- 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 a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash
Plots
- noun - a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal); "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet); "the writer is plotting a new novel"
- make a plat of; "Plat the town"
- make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
- plan secretly, usually something illegal; "They plotted the overthrow of the government"
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
Plows
- noun - a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"
- move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil; "The ship plowed through the water"
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"
Ploys
- noun - a maneuver in a game or conversation
- an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker
Pluck
- 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