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Webster 1913 Edition
Pleyt
Pleyt
,Noun.
(Naut.)
An old term for a river boat.
Definition 2024
pleyt
pleyt
English
Noun
pleyt (plural pleyts)
- (nautical, dated) A riverboat.
- The focal point of Cuyp's composition is not an elaborate warship but the relatively simple pleyt in rhe right foreground. — Arthur K. Wheelock.
- 2011, Money and Beauty, Giunti Editore, ISBN 9788809773851, page 186:
- The model on display belongs to the family of the "pleyt" or "pleitscip"."