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Webster 1913 Edition


Pleyt

Pleyt

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Noun.
(Naut.)
An old term for a river boat.

Definition 2024


pleyt

pleyt

English

Noun

pleyt (plural pleyts)

  1. (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"."

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