ploat, plote, v. Sc. and north. dial.
(plot)
[a. Fl. and Du. ploten (in Kilian only as Fl.) to pluck the wool off; in meaning identical with blooten, but connexion is uncertain.]
trans. To pluck, to strip of feathers, wool, etc.; fig. to rob, plunder fleece.
| 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss., Plote, to pluck, to chide vehemently, ‘See how she plotes him’. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., To Ploat, to pluck the feathers off a fowl... ‘They'll ploat him’, fleece him. 1863 Robson Bards of Tyne 431 The geese 'ill niver feel ye ploat. |
Hence † ˈploater, plotter [see -er1; cf. Du. ploter white leather-dresser, ‘vellerum siue lanarum tonsor’ (Kilian).] Obs.
| 1601 in Cochran-Patrick Med. Scotl. iii. (1892) 40 Ayr took three of them—George Baert, ‘plotter and comber’; James Claers, weaver; and Arane Janson, ‘scherar’. |