Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Plante, s. slip, cutting, D 763; piece of cut wood, R. 929. See Plaunte.

Plastres, s. pl. plaisters, or plasters, F 636.

Plat, adj. flat, certain, A 1845; Platte, dat. flat (side of a sword), F 162, 164. F. plat.

Plat, adv. flat, B 1865; flatly, straight out, bluntly, T. i. 681; B 886, 3947, C 648; fully, T. ii. 579. See Platly.

Plate, s. plate-armour, 9. 49; stiff iron defence for a hauberk, B 2055; the 'sight' on the 'rewle,' A. i. 13. 2; Plates, pl. iron plates for defensive armour, A 2121.

Plated, pp. plated, covered with metal in plates, HF. 1345.

Platly, adv. flatly, plainly, T. iii. 786, 881, iv. 924; I 485. See Plat.

Plaunte, s. plant, T. iv. 767; F 1032; Plante, slip, cutting, D 763; piece of cut wood, R. 929.

Plaunte, imp. s. plant, T. i. 964; Plaunted, pp. B 1. p 4. 182.

Play, s. play, amusement, 3. 50; Playes, pl. contrivances (see note), 3. 570. See Pley.