Plan. 'In a poor plan,' unwell, in a poor way, &c.—N.W. (Seend.)
*Plank-stone. A flag-stone.
'This soyle (at Easton Piers) brings very good oakes and witch hazles; excellent planke stones.'—Jackson's Aubrey, p. 236.
'At Bowdon Parke, Ano 1666, the diggers found the bones of a man under a quarrie of planke stones.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. of Wilts, p. 71, ed. Brit.
*Plash, Pleach. To cut the upper branches of a hedge half through, and then bend and intertwine them with those left upright below, so as to make a strong low fence (A.). Also Splash.—N. & S.W.
Plat. The plateau or plain of the downs.—S.W.
Pleach. See Plash.
Pleachers. Live boughs woven into a hedge in laying.—S.W.
Plim. (1) v. To swell out (A.B.S.), as peas or wood when soaked in water.—N. & S.W. (2) v. Many years ago, near Wootton Bassett, old Captain Goddard spoke to a farmer about a dangerous bull, which had just attacked a young man. The farmer's reply was:—'If a hadn't a bin a plimmin' an' vertin' wi' his stick—so fashion—(i.e. flourishing his stick about in the bull's face), the bull wouldn't ha' run at un.' No further explanation of these two words appears to be forthcoming at present.
Plocks. Large wood, or roots and stumps, sawn up into short lengths, and cleft for firewood (S.). Plock-wood (D.).—N. & S.W.