Ploat (verb) (British/Scottish)
pl-oat
To pluck; to strip of feathers, wool, etc. Frequently figurative: to rob or plunder, to fleece.
Mid 18th century. From Dutch ploten (also Dutch regional (West Flemish) plotten) to pluck, to strip the wool from a fleece; further etymology uncertain and disputed.
Example sentences
“They ploat our lands and bleed us dry!”
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