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!”
Praetorian (adj) (noun) pri-taw-ree-un of or relating to a praetor (a magistrate in the Roman republic). a soldier of the Praetorian Guard (Roman imperial army) First recorded in 1375–1425; late…
