noun
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A plot of land; a lot.
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A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
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A plot, a scheme.
verb
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To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.
Examples of plat in a Sentence
Occasionally such hills are called plat, i.e.
This is a charming little restaurant, with a good value plat du jour and a wide selection of simple inexpensive meals.
The homestead of any family in the state is exempt from attachment, lien or forced sale, except for taxes or purchase money, provided it has been properly recorded; but it can embrace only one dwelling house, cannot include gold or silver mines, and is limited in value to $5000 to one acre if within a town plat, to 40 acres if it is in the country and was acquired under the laws of the United States relating to mineral lands, and to 160 acres of other land in the country.
The east side was platted in the summer of 1835, and very soon afterward the plat of a settlement on the west side was also recorded, Byron Kilbourn being the chief projector and proprietor of the latter.
The In February 1839 this young lady, a daughter of the "Bed- marquis of Hastings, and a maid of honour to the chamber duchess of Kent, was accused by certain ladies of Plat' the bedchamber of immoral conduct.
General McCarver's original plat included what is now the first ward of the city, and is called the Old Town.
Flat-topped hills are usually called tafel (table) or plat (flat) bergs.
The first Territorial Council met in 1836 at Old Belmont, now Leslie, Lafayette county, but in December of that year Madison was selected as the capital, after a contest in which Fond du Lac, Milwaukee, Racine, Green Bay, Portage and other places were considered, and in which James Duane Doty, later governor, owner of the Madison town plat, was charged with bribing legislators with town lots in Madison.